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From:         Christoph van Wuellen <HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject:      Re: What's wrong with kermit? (ST minix 1.5)
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Date: 1 Apr 91 13:51:40 GMT
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The ST shadowing mechanism runs into performance problems when a
process does a fork() and keeps running parallel to its child --
the typical application is a terminal emulator.

The stterm program uses the 'OS-9 approach', as I would call it:
it forks off two children, which exec the reader and the writer.

Kermit does it in the standard unix fashion, so it is slow on the ST.

C.v.W.