SI> Have you narrowed down exactly what some people mean by "jerky"?  I have
SI> seen "jerky" displays in TMW, but it's caused by the font being a wee
SI> bit too large for the window.  The excess characters, when shifted over
SI> to display, cause the rest of the screen to jump.  That might be what
SI> some people are talking about.
In my case, I was using the standard font and an 80x25 screen.  It all
fit within the view area and there were no scroll bars like when the
terminal screen doesn't fit.
I could clear the screen and have the cursor in the upper left corner.
I then did an AT&V to get my modem's setup.  Those lines are under 80
columns and did fit fine on a single line.  Since the cursor had been up
at the top left, there was no scrolling going on.
It would print several lines.  Pause.  Several more lines.  Pause, and
so on.  Each line would be printed out quickly and cleanly.  Each pause
would seem to last about half a second to three quarters of a second.
(Although I didn't actually time it.  It was long enough to be noticable
of course.)
It wasn't doing anything during those times.  No screen scrolling, no
screen activity, no background tasks running.  No disk I/O that I saw.
Nothing.
It wasn't at any particular time, and as near as I remember, it was all
the time.
Just as a pure guess, to me, it seemed like it had a buffer of 150-200
chars and it would wait until that was full and then print it all out at
once.  If in half a second or so it wasn't full, it would go ahead and
print it out anyway.  It was somewhat like the data was 'bursty' (ie.,
comming in spurts), except it was comming straight from the modem with
no compression or anything like that to cause bursts of incomming data
(which would result in a screen that would appear to print jerkily.)
I can't really describe it any better than that.  I've already deleted
TmW and I don't want to reinstall it just to check.  I probably wont be
using TmW anyway though.  Somebody said that future versions would be 32
bit, and these days that means W96 and I don't have W96 and do not
intend to get it.  If I was to upgrade, I'd go for OS/2 Warp.
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