Tony Firshman wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 6/Apr/11 13:23 | Apr6:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Afternoon all,
On 06/04/11 10:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Gerard Phelan had the idea of asking a search engine how to
pronounce it (now why didn't I think of that?).
That's what I did too!
Laurence Reeves wrote, on 20/Apr/11 09:29 | Apr20:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 6/Apr/11 13:23 | Apr6:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Afternoon all,
On 06/04/11 10:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Gerard Phelan had the idea of asking a search engine how to
pronounce it (now why didn't I think
Rich Mellor wrote:
On 12/04/2011 22:04, Adrian Ives wrote:
CUT
2) Yes, input; but the USBWiz can't do split baud rates and it isn't
easy to
do split rates on a standard QL without additional hardware and/or
software.
The input limitation is two stops at 9600. The USBWiz only sends one
so it
Lee Privett wrote:
Can anyone tell me what character 181 is in the Sinclair QL character font is?
It is not printed in the QL User manual, not the ones I have anyway
I cannot find the character in the standard window fonts, symbol or wingdings
I cannot find it in the world list of currency
Thanks to Rich Mellor, who managed to source a Hermes chip, I can now
confirm that the Ser-USB will work on a standard QL fitted with Hermes at
speeds up to 19200 baud. It is still necessary to load the asynchronous I/O
module (the Queue Manager), though. This takes up an extra 5K of RAM.
It
Adrian Ives wrote:
...
- If QDOS decides that it's time to flush a slave block then - that's it -
you WILL flush that slave block! It doesn't matter what your driver is
doing, or whether it needs that block in memory. You WILL flush it - and
just for good measure you are prohibited from
On 20/04/2011 12:25, Adrian Ives wrote:
Thanks to Rich Mellor, who managed to source a Hermes chip, I can now
confirm that the Ser-USB will work on a standard QL fitted with Hermes at
speeds up to 19200 baud. It is still necessary to load the asynchronous I/O
module (the Queue Manager), though.
Adrian Ives wrote:
So . Ser-USB will be supported on base QL hardware, after all.
However, without Hermes or (better still) superHermes you will be
limited to 4800 baud.
Great news.
There will be an announcement at the beginning of May on the
availability of the hardware and its pricing,
Laurence,
I'm a little bit surprised by your comment that I am misusing slave blocks.
Obviously the authors of the original QUBIDE driver, on which Ser-USB was
based, were also misusing them!!! Like them, I use the slave blocks to keep
mirrors of the data on the drive in memory to save having to
Rich Mellor wrote, on 20/Apr/11 12:45 | Apr20:
On 20/04/2011 12:25, Adrian Ives wrote:
Thanks to Rich Mellor, who managed to source a Hermes chip, I can now
confirm that the Ser-USB will work on a standard QL fitted with Hermes at
speeds up to 19200 baud. It is still necessary to load the
Adrian Ives wrote, on 20/Apr/11 13:02 | Apr20:
I'm a little bit surprised by your comment that I am misusing slave blocks.
Obviously the authors of the original QUBIDE driver, on which Ser-USB was
based, were also misusing them!!! Like them, I use the slave blocks to keep
mirrors of the data
Well, original, or son of original, it's all the same difference and this
slave block flushing issue happens on an expanded QL as well.
-Original Message-
Tony wrote:
. but the qubide driver is not original. Phil Borman based it on the
Rebel disk code. Qubide got away with it, I
On 6 Apr 2011, at 12:26, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Interesting in that the word is Greek and is pronounced Tee-chee. Tyche
is/was the goddess of [good] fortune. Also:
http://www.goddess.com.au/goddesses/Tyche.htm says (amongst other stuff):
Tyche (pronounced tee-chee) is the Greek goddess
Adrian Ives wrote:
- As a further bonus, if QDOS has decided that you WILL flush a large number
of slave blocks, the driver will exhaust all of the available memory trying
to double buffer the requests.
How can the driver exhaust all of the available memory. when it is not
permitted to
I think perhaps we're talking at cross purposes here, but this is a subject
that has caused me a massive amount of grief so I'm a no compromise mood.
Here it is: I have no problem with releasing a slave block WHEN I AM DONE
WITH IT! The Operating System is there to serve me. Not the other way
That is great news.
Thanks Duncan
There will be an announcement at the beginning of May on the availability of
the hardware and its pricing, before which I will be in touch with anyone
who has already enquired about purchasing a Ser-USB.
-Original
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