MTerm

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Overview

This is a design document for a Model 100 terminal program.

Features

  • 38400bps support
  • Hardware flow control
  • Avoids flowing off the sender as much as possible, filling up free RAM with data up to limit of machine
  • The core should be open, educational, and reusable in other applications
  • Priority of operations are:
    • The current RX or TX operation as an atomic unit
    • Keyboard polling
    • Bottom line display
    • No-scroll display updates
    • Scrolling updates
  • Permit queueing of multiple receive or transmit operations
  • "Zero copy" - receive and transmit directly to/from the clients memory.