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Re: Apple III oddity



On 11/8/2012 10:00 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
When I type the word "printer" very fast I get prin.ter.  I tried it
multiple times.  ntntntntntntnt as fast as possible does nothing (well,
it does ntntntntntn... as expected).  Any ideas?  I was doing this from
Business Basic.

Such is life with an interrupt-driven software interface to the keyboard. Lots of programs end up mushing your keystrokes together because they get fed poor information from the slow keyboard subsystem.