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From: cth_co@tekno.chalmers.se (Christer Olsson. MedNet, G|teborgs Universitet)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Courier HST on 386 HDB SysV
Message-ID: <9505@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 24 Jul 90 14:33:56 GMT
References: <5669@obdient.chi.il.us> <RqPRm3w162w@halcyon.wa.com>
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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In article <RqPRm3w162w@halcyon.wa.com>, ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
> blair@obdient.chi.il.us (Doug Blair) writes:
>
>> One of our guest users (a "DOS Person") has given us a US Robotics Courier
>> HST (not Dual Standard or V.32) modem so that he can read news at high speed.
>
> Interesting concept.  Most people can't read text scrolling that fast.  We
> did a little survey once and found 1200 was pretty good for folks who were
> accomplished readers, and 2400 was fine for those that used some form of
> block i/o ('speed-reading').  Most of the teens were more comfortable at
> 300.  At the time, I thought this didn't say much for our educational
> system.
>

If the text don't scrolling, it's no problems to read at 9600 bps. I've
a 72-lines terminal connected at 19200 and I think 19200 are too slow...

Many DOS-users have terminalemulators supoorting 43 or 50 lines with
EGA/VGA. 2400 bps feels slow with many lines.

I'm using a fullscreen news-reader under VMS and the newsreader sends
VT100-codes so the througput is smaller than 19200 bps.