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On Tue, 14 Dec 1993, Joel Mathew Hegberg wrote:

> As for the mouse dying under K-Windows (and lost characters during disk
> access while downloading), the fix is to do:
>
>  dmode /h0 maxcount=2048
>  dmode /dd maxcount=2048
>
> You can put that in your startup file, or you can do it once, 'save' out
> the modified 'h0' and 'dd' descriptors and make a new boot file.  I
> believe it was Ken Scales that discovered this.

        Unfortunately, performance drops into the basement (as far drt500
is concerned).  With maxcount=65535, drt500 reports a transfer rate of
approx. 1.7 MB/s, with maxcount=2048, drt500 reports 0.3 MB/s (found with
drt500 /dd@ 128).


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