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03/21/08 02:34
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#152406 - It has always been a source of some mirth ...
Responding to: ???'s previous message
... how Windows is brought to it's knee's by serial and the venerable floppy disk I/O.

Bit mapped display and Windows overhead in scheduling service are of course a considerable part of the problem with serial I/O and perhaps often with floppy I/O. But i remember how my old 6 MHz Megatel z80 board could inhale a floppy with a rat-a-tat sound that the quickest Windows based PC never could.

FIFO'd serial I/O only marginally impacted Windows platform reliability.

But serial I/O has now gone the way of the floppy disk in Wintel technology so terminal program frustrations daily recede into old war stories told to younger folks.

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Bray - as in Bray's Terminal - lives! :-)            01/01/70 00:00      
   Looks pretty nice            01/01/70 00:00      
      I don't use the fancy stuff...            01/01/70 00:00      
         No clickey mess            01/01/70 00:00      
   Its great..I have been using it from long time :-)            01/01/70 00:00      
   too cool!            01/01/70 00:00      
   Looks can be deceiving            01/01/70 00:00      
      nothing is perfect...            01/01/70 00:00      
         Links?            01/01/70 00:00      
            google is our best friend ;-)            01/01/70 00:00      
               But did I find the right ones?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  mostly yes            01/01/70 00:00      
         Don't Relegate TeraTerm to 1-4 use            01/01/70 00:00      
            But why 16?            01/01/70 00:00      
               Not my limit...            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Sure            01/01/70 00:00      
                     the current version...            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Reproducing the problem            01/01/70 00:00      
                           I can't reproduce the problem, but...            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Update            01/01/70 00:00      
                              wow, I am impressed            01/01/70 00:00      
            thanks!            01/01/70 00:00      
         TeraTerm            01/01/70 00:00      
         Some things are far from perfect            01/01/70 00:00      
            It has always been a source of some mirth ...            01/01/70 00:00      

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