Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!rice!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: 13 May 91 14:16:06 GMT References: <6196@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <64136@bbn.BBN.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article <64136@bbn.BBN.COM> pplacewa@bbn.com (Paul Placeway) writes: > Unless you are calling into an Annex, and then going into your host > with telnet or rlogin, as I am now. In this case, it doesn't matter > that Emacs is smart enough to do the "right thing", because it has > allready sent the *entire* screen refresh to the Annex before my > typed character reaches it, Ok, well that's a fairly unusual situation. I'll give you the point, though. Sometimes it's a hardware problem instead of a software problem that's the hangup. As for CompuCon... internal modems are the devil's work. Using up an IRQ per serial port is nasty nasty nasty. I wish someone would reverse engineer the Trailblazer and get the price down on those babies. It's the most reliable protocol I've found. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"