24 Mar
2016
24 Mar
'16
3:40 p.m.
Make sure it only prints 10 characters per second,
then. (I think TTY's were
10 cps?) R-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w.
And don't forget that carriage-return takes longer than printing individual
characters, so you need to send CR LF to give it time to get back to the
first column while it's feeding a line. Or CR CR LF just in case.
(Or was that the Olivetti terminal? Or the DECwriter? One of those
mechanical things anyway.)
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