[Alan Anderson]

Here's a look at the frozen terminal window. The code was outputting a line every 26 milliseconds. The display would sometimes continue updating for several seconds, and sometimes it would stop before it filled the window. I think it had gone for almost two seconds this time.

I checked the CPU usage, and EasyC was alternating between zero and one percent. This is on a laptop running Windows XP. I'm not sure how fast it is, but I'm reasonably certain it's between 1.5 and 2 GHz. It has a true nine-pin serial port, not a USB-to-serial converter.

The double-spaced output is because I put an explicit \r at the end of the line to make HyperTerminal happy. And HyperTerminal is indeed happy, showing line after line for as long as I want to look, so I know it's not a hardware issue.