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Article #40825Re: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
From: P E Smee
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 11:48
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 11:48
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In article <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes: > > There has been an increasing amount of talk about the 'phantom >typist' on the ST, in which the computer appears to slow down and >whatever characters are stored in the keyboard buffer, appear, albeit >slowly. Some programs which have keyboard commands, such as WordPerfect I heard rumours some time ago that this was a side-effect (maybe or maybe not intentional) of an early PD program called UHRLI.ACC, which when selected would put a small digital clock display inside a tiny window. I certainly have not seen the problem since I bought a cheap digital watch to hang beside the computer, and stopped using UHRLI. May just be coincidence, though. -- Paul Smee, Univ of Bristol Comp Centre, Bristol BS8 1TW, Tel +44 272 303132 Smee@bristol.ac.uk :-) (..!uunet!ukc!gdr.bath.ac.uk!exspes if you MUST)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!gdt!exspes From: exspes@bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST' Message-ID: <1990Feb13.114858.5081@bath.ac.uk> Date: 13 Feb 90 11:48:58 GMT References: <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6> Organization: University of Bristol c/o University of Bath Lines: 19