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AST RESEARCH, INC. TECHNICAL BULLETIN #0500E 11-14-90
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AST-5251/11 ENHANCED FUNCTIONAL ISSUES
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AST Data Comm Product Marketing has reviewed all aspects of the following
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functional issues relating to the 5251/11 Enhanced product (part number
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500417-XXX). They have made the determination that these issues will not be
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resolved for this product.
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These issues are as follows:
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- An application from IBM for use on the IBM AS/400, called "AS/400
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OFFICE", will not operate when used on a terminal which is configured
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using the Enhanced emulation software. When the program is loaded,
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data on the screen is garbled. (PR#A45129)
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- The 5251/11 Enhanced board does not function correctly when installed
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in a system with an Orchid "Tiny Turbo" card. The 5251/11 software
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reports various errors such as "Internal stack overflow" and
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"Unidentified error". (PR#A45059)
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- The user is printing a job sent from the System 36 to a printer
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attached to the PC which is emulating an IBM system printer. If during
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the job the printer is powered down, upon re-starting the printer the
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rest of the printed data is unintelligible. (PR#A45092)
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- The utility ASTKBD.EXE may corrupt the AST5251.KBD data file, if
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changes are made to the keyboard configuration and the changes are
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written over the existing AST5251.KBD file. (PR#A45081)
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- The Enhanced card does not appear to operate correctly when installed
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on a line with the IBM 3197 terminal. If the Enhanced card is the last
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device on the line, and the IBM 3197 terminals in front of it are
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operating then the system with the Enhanced card in it may lock up.
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(PR#A45101)
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- The 5251/11 Enhanced product does not operate in a Toshiba 5100 PC. The
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user gets a blank sign-on screen with "SA" highlighted. The emulation
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does not work at any system speed. (PR#A45036)
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- The keyboard mapping of the 11/Enhanced product does not work correctly
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on the Wyse Models 2200 and 2214. The keypad, cursor arrow keys, and
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right "control" key do not operate as they are supposed to. (PR#A45057)
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- Emulation does not function correctly in the Commodore PC-10 compatible
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computer. System locks up when more than one error message is received
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from the System 34. (PR#A45063)
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- The 11/Enhanced product does not work correctly in the DTK XT-clone
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system. It may be necessary to disable the PC's clock to allow
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emulation to operate. (PR#A45113)
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- With 11/Enhanced board operating in a Unisys PC with a Persyst CGA
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adapter, there is more than the normal amount of "snow" on the
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emulation screen. The "no snow" option in the configuration program
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does not have any affect on the problem. (PR#A45118)
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- The 5251/11 Enhanced software does not support the Keytronics 122-key
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keyboard. The right hand "Control" key and the PC "Enter key" issue
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the same scan code in DOS. For this reason these two keys cannot be
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mapped to different functions by the AST emulation software.
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(PR#A45116)
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- When running emulation program in EGA mode, all screen attributes that
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should appear as yellow on the screen actually appear as a shade of
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brown. (PR#A45168)
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