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    14-Jun-86 10:03:57
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Fm: Chris Barr 73475,415
To: scott drysdale 72127,1510

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Point of information. Could one have two or more tasks? One would accept keyboard input and accept serial incoming signals and write to the buffer. Another would constantly squirt the buffer to the screen. The screen painter would have a lower priority. Also, if one wanted to use bursts of characters for speed, could you not have a one line window at the bottom of the screen which acts like a typewriter — ie always displays a stream of characters as typed centered on the screen. The main window would show the input — either the serial input or formatted text from a WP or whatever. Chris