Re: Orton's rant on serial connection of NIBL computers to modern terminal emulations
Hi Dom,
A NIBL computer using a 4MHz SC/MP II and using 110 Baud serial routines requires 400 milliseconds to enter a new line into a program. How I came to believe that figure was 100 milliseconds, I don't know. Certainly, erasing Line Feeds is NOT going to liberate the time needed by the SC/MP to process new line entry.
To determine the 400 millisecond figure, I entered a NIBL program which creates a 400 line NIBL program in one of the other pages. It takes ages to run, but it works! Here's the program:
(Entered and run in Page 3)
10 P=#4002
20 FOR N=1 TO 400
30 @(P)=N/256
40 @(P+1)=N AND 255
50 @(P+2)=10
60 $(P+3)="ABCDEF"
70 P=P+10
80 NEXT N
90 @(P)=255
100 @(P+1)=255
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