Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!FSU.BITNET!PETCHER From: PETCHER@FSU.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Uniterm vs. Blitter question Message-ID: <[gw.scri.fsu.edu].7450E760.00915075.PETCHER> Date: 28 Jun 88 23:01:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 A while ago I sent a letter which started out: >When I run Uniterm 2.0c on my mega 2 with the blitter on, the program hangs up >or crashes. But if I turn off the blitter everything goes fine. I typically As it turns out, I was premature in my judgement that everything was fine without the blitter. After awhile, even when the blitter was turned off Uniterm froze up. So I began to investigate further, and to my amazement the problem apparently resides in the mainframe software (an interactive database for a library catalog) and not anywhere on the Atari end at all! Those in charge of this database admit that it is still unstable and that this problem has also occurred in other cases. When connected to anything other than this database, my mega, Uniterm and the blitter so far continue to happily coexist and go merrily humming along. Sorry about the false alarm. Thanks to those of you who responded to my original query, confirming your exeriences that Uniterm works well with a working blitter. Don Petcher