Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site netex.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!trwrdc!rlgvax!hadron!netex!ewiles From: ewiles@netex.UUCP (Ed Wiles) Newsgroups: net.dcom,net.lan Subject: Re: Re: Standards for commercial packet radio Message-ID: <114@netex.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 20:41:38 EDT Article-I.D.: netex.114 Posted: Fri Sep 20 20:41:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 04:13:23 EDT References: <1445@cbosgd.UUCP> <1032@hou2h.UUCP> <296@dlvax2.UUCP> <340@cstvax.UUCP> Organization: NetExpress, Inc., Vienna, VA Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.dcom:1326 net.lan:1040 Summary: X.25 Terminal to Host Network > >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? > >How did it work? Just curious. > Our company uses X.25 extensively between terminals and hosts, the major problem seems to be "lumpyness", as another put it. The characters you type, and the effect that they have, are seen as: one char, then another, then a whole gob of them. As to slowness, like any network, if you overload it, its going to slow down. E. L. Wiles Member Tech Staff, NetExpress Inc. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com