Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!fortune!norskog From: norskog@fortune.UUCP (Lance Norskog) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: alleged Disgusting kernel hack ( - (nf) Message-ID: <2373@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 15:59:49 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2373 Posted: Mon Jan 30 15:59:49 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 11:25:01 EST References: <2315@fortune.UUCP>, <1588@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 20 It's horse's mouth time! Yes, the Fortune 32:16 console screen is memory-mapped, the best-case time for writing characters is ~45Kbaud. The page mode feature keeps page length as the only terminal-knowledge parameter. Using the restart character (default ^Q) as the page-mode restart character was a mistake, it interacts with the ^S/^Q used by terminals. Currently it 2 other problems: You can't change theprompt, and it doesn't know about logical-line-length-that-is-greater-than-physical-line-length. Other than that, I love it. One other thing: you can start a long program that prints out a lot of stuff, leave it going for 20 minutes, and discover that its been for 19 minutes! Maybe a timeout would be nice... Lance C. Norskog Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA {cbosgd,hpda,harpo,sri-unix,amd70,decvax!ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!norskog