On 07-May-00, Paul Cundle wrote:
>
>> A bit of an odd one this, but has anyone else noticed the strange
>> phenomenon that if you hold down the right mouse button, thereby
>> stopping any screen update, while downloading something on Voyager,
>> it downloads much quicker ie stalls less?
>> Any ideas? Anyone?
>
> At a guess, I'd say it's because holding down the RMB pretty much
> halts anything else that might be running. As you're using the
> internal serial port, your CPU is being used for both running
> voyager and controlling the serial transfer so it's under pressure.
> By stopping the other processes, some power is freed up for use by
> your serial port.
More likely the pathetic CIA chips that perform the job of UARTs than the
CPU that's getting relieved of pressure. I've heard people report that
transfer speed suddenly doubles when a screen blanker starts up, and
very basic Amigas having to reduce the number of screen colours to get the
serial port working properly.
Whatever it is, the RMB trick is an interesting one that I had never heard
before. I'll try it. I bet it will make no difference with serial card
installed.
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