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- Subject: Re: MiNTlib (I think I'm on pl43): Bug in sprintf().
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 13:20:40 -0700
- From: Howard Chu <howard@harry.lloyd.com>
-
- Strange... Well, I'm away from home right now so I can't check it out
- till next week. [Sad to say, I've been really behind on building any
- current MiNT code...]
-
- > Probably normal, given that it's really polling at 60 times per second.
- > So up to 30-some characters can arrive (at 19200) before polling, and then
- > checkbttys is only called on a context switch, so yes, there could be a
- > large number of characters waiting before select returns...
-
- Well, I'm not taking of 30 characters, but about a screen full of them, ie
- about 80x25=2000! When I use modm0dev which polls at 5 times per second
- using a separate porcess I get much smaller hunks, about 500.
-
- Kay.
-