Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!seka.scc.com!enger From: enger@seka.scc.com (Robert M. Enger) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Re; "burstiness" of MNP modems Message-ID: <1991Mar2.223013.30223@europa.asd.contel.com> Date: 3 Mar 91 03:30:12 GMT References: <2634@kluge.fiu.edu> <3814.27cbe8c1@hayes.uucp> <39681@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: enger@seka.scc.com Distribution: usa Organization: CONTEL Federal Systems Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: seka.scc.com In article <39681@cup.portal.com>, Wingnut@cup.portal.com (Chris Allan Goodey) writes: |> Now my question is, why can't someone write smarter firmware to smooth |> this out by pausing briefly between characters. The more data in the |> buffer, the less you 'smooth' the output. I am sure with a little |> experimenting the jerkiness of the output could be totally eliminated! |> Hi: Who's to say which characters are susceptible to 'jerky' presentation. Not all data appears on the screen. Some characters may be terminal (terminal emulator) control sequences which take some time for the terminal to process. Delivering these characters to the terminal promptly will give it a head start and hopefully it may be done by the time some real (displayable to the user) data comes along from the modem. In reality, the modems are getting so fast now, they are exceeding the speed of the itty bitty processor in most dumb terminals (and the often inefficient terminal emulation software). It won't be long before the burstyness is masked by the overload/lag-behind condition of the terminal! Bob -- Robert M. Enger CONTEL Federal Systems enger@seka.scc.com (Internet)