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Slothie · 16th May 2019, 12:45 am

I remember "back in the day" that computers could be made to outout NUL (0x00) characters after the linefeed during listing to allow the computer time to process the line. I suppose you could try this, if its possible to get the sc/mp to ignore NUL characters and not lose sync with the serial stream.
On the DG Nova I used at school there was a seperate PUNCH command that acted exactly like LIST except it punced out the NUL characters. Perhaps you could add a command to NIBL to wait a half second between lines?

16th May 2019, 12:45 am	#14
Slothie Octode Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Newbury, Berkshire, UK. Posts: 1,287	Re: My 'ASR 33' terminal I remember "back in the day" that computers could be made to outout NUL (0x00) characters after the linefeed during listing to allow the computer time to process the line. I suppose you could try this, if its possible to get the sc/mp to ignore NUL characters and not lose sync with the serial stream. On the DG Nova I used at school there was a seperate PUNCH command that acted exactly like LIST except it punced out the NUL characters. Perhaps you could add a command to NIBL to wait a half second between lines?