Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: PacerTerm announcement Message-ID: <1991Jun6.140312.1719@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 6 Jun 91 14:03:12 GMT References: <55534@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <11884@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at U-C Lines: 16 In article kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) writes: >time. However, only one of those can be a serial (modem) session. If one >were running SLIP, AppleTalk, PPP, or some other high-level protocol across >a serial line to a remote node, one could theoretically have multiple >sessions across it You mean like I've been doing with John Bruner's uw for four years or more? >but you'd loose a _lot_ of speed to overhead If you have a lot of simultaneous output, sure. That's really not a big consideration, IMHO; multiple windows are far more often used to maintain multiple contexts than to have several endlessly blathering processes going. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner