Re: Typematic Rate

Hi Simon,

I know there is a BIOS INT 16 (?) call to set the typematic rate, but is
there a DEFINED location for the storage of this value (40:??)? Jerry
wants to get the previous value I believe, so he can restore it after
the controller program finishes (good programming practice).

But thanks for the offer. Why not zip up the two com's and the source
(OK, you wrote them with debug), and put it up in the files section?

Alan KM6VV


Augustus Crunch wrote:

>
> Hi,
> The typematic rate isn't set by the keyboard, it is a byte in low
> memory in the PC. I wrote
> a dos program some years back that sets it to the highest repeat rate
> (30/sec) and the lowest
> wait before repeating (1/4 sec), which makes computers seem a lot
> faster. (I also wrote one to
> slow things down just to irritate my coworkers.) They are I believe 16
> bytes each, not being
> windows based - if anyone is interested I can put them on my website or
> on the group file area.
> They still work fine under windows.
>
> By the way, someone mentioned that acetic acid is vinegar. My high
> school chemistry
> teacher told us that he drank some acetic acid just to prove that point,
> and regretted it
> even after they pumped his stomach - vinegar is about 1% acetic acid,
> the real stuff is quite
> corrosive.
>
> Simon
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