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Peter-Frank Spierenburg (peter@cs.dal.ca) writes:
> Greetings,
> 
> I remember long ago, when I was trying to setup a BBS on my Coco a piece 
> of assembly code called a remote terminal driver. When the driver is 
> installed, the Coco accepts input from the bitbanger port as if it was 
> the keyboard and all output is sent both to the screen and the 
> bitbanger. I seem to recall that the driver would masquerade as the 
> normal keyboard and screen routines so that all calls that would 
> ordinarily go to the original routines would go to the driver instead, 
> and then the driver would call the original routines after it had done 
> its thing. Does anyone recall such software, and does anyone know how 
> the masquerade was accomplished? I'd like to write my own terminal driver.
> 
> Peter.
> 
It was in one of the annual telecommunication issues, which if I'm
remembering properly was the November issue.

I want to say it was 1984, because I remember it being early in
when I started buying the magazine, and that would have been in 1984.

  Michael