Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!fernwood!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: T1000 and 2400 baud vs. 9600 for interactive use Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 22:21:54 GMT References: <6196@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 34 In article <6196@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support) writes: > The argument that 9600 baud modems are not worth buying over 2400 baud modems > because "You can't read that fast" is specious. They're not worth paying 10 times as much if you're doing interactive work. That's not the same thing. What do you want to use them for? > To transfer files, if I didn't want to use "rcp" or "ftp", I used UUCP > instead and I was damn glad to have PEP and UUCP spoofing available instead > of 2400 baud. Yep. > Now that I'm back to a plain terminal again, there's still a win. No, I can't > read faster than 2400 baud. Butif I'm in "rn", I see a full page appear on > my screen much faster than at 2400 baud. If I decide I don't want to read it, > I can hit "n" or "q" or whatever and get on with it much faster than waiting > for a page that I don't want to read come up at 2400 baud. That's a user interface problem again: rn should flush output and perform the command as soon as you hit that key, the way 'vnews' does it. Or Emacs. > Also, anyone who runs on a BSD system and has a plain terminal with halfway > decent capabilities would be insane not to use "screen" to multiplex it. That's a user-interface problem. You can get a terminal with multiple pages for a lot less than a high pseed modem, and then screen flipping could be made tremendously faster. Don't blame the modem if the programs you use are designed for higher speeds. A faster modem is nice. It's not worth the difference in cost, yet. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"