Date   : Mon, 17 Jun 1991 03:07:33 GMT
From   : cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.arc.nasa.gov!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cc.curtin.edu.au!nmurrayr@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ron Murray)
Subject: Microbee terminal programs and so on ...

In article <1991Jun13.025034.18949@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au>, rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au
(    r    lang) writes:
> In article <834@spam.ua.oz>, dcook@spam.ua.oz (David Cook) writes:
>> 
>>    Well, I haven't heard any replies to my earlier followup
>> about QTerm on Microbee (CP/M) computers, so I decided to post
>> this. My question : 
>> Has anyone got patches/working executable for QTerm on a Microbee system ?
> I have never seen QTerm, but Kermit-80 v4.11 does have a Microbee version.
> 
>> If not, has anyone got any information about programming I/O on
>> a Microbee, or can anyone recommend any books on the subject.
> Get a Microbee technical manual.
> 
>> (If I have to I'll try to remember some Z80 assembler, and
>> write the QTerm patches myself, but I have no information
>> on using the PIO (or is it UART? - shows how little docs I have :)
>> in the Microbee )
> The microbee serial port is 4 bits of the PIO - TX, RX, CTS and one 
> other non-standard one.  The other PIO bits are used for tape in, 
> tape out, tape on/off, speaker.  Programming serial routines is a real pain.
> Input is interrupt driven so that you don't lose characters when the 
> keyboard is being scanned or the video screen scrolled.
> -- 

   If you have one of the later coreboards (8342- I think, but don't quote me),
you'd be better off installing an 8530 and using that. This gets you two
hardware serial ports and, even though the 8530 is a real bitch to program,
it's lots better than the software UART. Don't know about QTERM, but there's
a ZMP overlay for this configuration.

.....Ron
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