Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesnews 0.1 (unido 12/05/84); site unido.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!unido!dfk From: dfk@unido.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Re: Re: Standards for commercial pac Message-ID: <10400001@unido.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 08:04:00 EDT Article-I.D.: unido.10400001 Posted: Wed Sep 4 08:04:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Sep-85 04:24:11 EDT References: <296@dlvax2.UUCP> Sender: notes@unido.UUCP Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:dlvax2:-29600:unido:10400001:000:458 Nf-From: unido!dfk Sep 4 10:04:00 1985 > >While on the subject, I have a question. Has anyone ever run VI on > >Unix from a terminal with an X.25 packet switching network between the > >terminal and host? > > I have. > > >How did it work? Just curious. > > Appallingly badly! The more important point here is that you get charged by the packet/segment. In this mode you use up to two segments per character typed (one for the echo). IT MAKES THE TELCOS RICH!!!! -Daniel