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From: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: net.periphs,net.micro,net.wanted
Subject: Re: update on **real** 19200 CRT
Message-ID: <604@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 12:35:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: ulowell.604
Posted: Tue Jul 29 12:35:47 1986
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell
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Keywords: Amiga
Summary: Amigas work great as 19.2K terminals
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In article <71@winfree.UUCP> bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee) writes:
>BTW:  I'm currently convinced that selling my terminals and buying single-
>floppy 8Mhz PC clones with Amdek 310A monitors on Hercules-compatible 
>monochrome video cards and using Kermit to make them into terminals part time
>is going to be a BIG win.  Think about it, you can build the required PC clone
>for about $600-$700 last time I checked, and it WILL do 19200 ok with the
>faster processor and interrupt-driven I/O.  Plus you've got more micros to
>play with!

Since you're thinking about going micro-based, check out the Amiga.
I use it, along with Commodore's "Amigaterm" terminal program.  Has
80/128 column display, 24/48 rows of text (you need a long persistence
monitor for 48 rows due to interlace flicker), XMODEM and Compuserve B
protocols, hardware or software handshaking, you pick the colors of
text/background, and it works great at 19200!  Of course, you can
still multitask all you want (recalculate your spreadsheet while you
download a file, etc).  Nice to have a window-based system.

Emulates vt100, vt52, amiga (whatever THAT is!) and ANSI.  I've
only used vt100, which works fine.  I've never seen a PC-based
package (hardware + terminal program) that could keep up at 19.2,
but the Amiga does so, effortlessly.

I don't work for Commodore or Commodore-Amiga, by the way.
I *am* the moderator of mod.amiga, though.

..Bob
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