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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
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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 the  prompt, 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
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