Re: If this gets out ..

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1 total messages Started by Oliver Broadway Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:00

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Author: Oliver Broadway
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:00

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 In article <857007590_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>
  guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) wrote:-

>Interestingly, on those rare 
>occasions I run Nos in a vt52 window under MagiC (instead of 
>singletasking it where it gets all the cpu) the timings are not 
>noticably different - and they should be, which lends weight to the 
>argument that demon news is slow

Receiving RS232 data uses so little processor time that multitasking
shouldn't make any appreciable difference to the timings. And indeed it
doesn't, in my experience, either with Demon news downloads or with any
other comms activity.

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Ollie

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