[Coco] Shell i=/t1& slowdown

[Stephen Castello]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:26:26 -0600, "Chester A Patterson"
<vchester at setec-cr.com> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>Hello.
>Recently I made a serial cable and tested it hooking up a W98 laptop to
>the bit-banger.
>Boot NOS9-030206
>Xmode /t1 9600-8-N-1 and all is well. Could send stuff to WinTerm (eg.
>list startup >/t1)
>Then I did shell i=/t1& and got a nice terminal on WinTerm. BUT the Coco
>slowed down horribly!
>My startup fires up /Term and /w1/2/3 text with shells.
>Is this normal? Of course each process takes up its setpr slices but the
>slowdown is very pronounced.
>Suggestions?

The bit-banger port will be the source of the slow down since it uses
alot of cpu time to send/receive.

Stephen
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