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From: adh@cstvax.UUCP (Adam Hamilton)
Newsgroups: net.dcom,net.lan
Subject: Re: Re: Standards for commercial packet radio
Message-ID: <340@cstvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 06:34:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: cstvax.340
Posted: Thu Sep  5 06:34:58 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 02:44:39 EDT
References: <1445@cbosgd.UUCP> <1032@hou2h.UUCP> <296@dlvax2.UUCP>
Reply-To: adh@cstvax.UUCP (Adam Hamilton)
Organization: Comp. Sc., Edinburgh Univ., Scotland
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In article <296@dlvax2.UUCP> ml@dlvax2.UUCP ( Martyn Legge ) writes:
>In article <1032@hou2h.UUCP> hhs@hou2h.UUCP (H.SHARP) writes:
>
>>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!
>
>Martyn Legge (Data Logic)

At Edinburgh University, we access machines via X25 all the time.
Performance varies depending on the power at the host end.
My description of running vi is "a bit lumpy", but it really is quite
acceptable (unless you judge by running SPY on a PERQ or SUN)

		Adam Hamilton

(Disclaim, exclaim, reclaim, inflame)


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