Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!madison!elliott From: elliott@madison.steinmetz Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: ][e enhancement Message-ID: <11315@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 22 Jun 88 15:30:44 GMT References:<8806191034.aa04168@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> <11295@steinmetz.ge.com> <9646@reed.UUCP> Sender: news@steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: elliott@madison.steinmetz.ge.com () Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 17 In article <9646@reed.UUCP> kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes: >I was under the impression that the real *problem* with the old ROM's were >that it turned off interrupts during that long scroll period. Remember, if >you SEI, it doesn't matter what's going on, no interrupt will take place. Yup. I stand corrected. It's been so long since I used the wretched firmware screen routines that I have forgotten all their deficiencies. So, my second proposed solution will not work, and the only way to not lose characters is to write your own screen code. Which is a fun and useful exercise in itself, but not for everyone I suppose. . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Jim Elliott / ...!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!crd!elliott / "Don't look, son, it's / Jim_Elliott%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu [school] a secular humanist!" / (or) elliott@ge-crd.arpa [work] . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . .