Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!ernie.Berkeley.EDU!mazlack
From: mazlack@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Lawrence J. Mazlack)
Newsgroups: net.periphs,net.micro,net.wanted
Subject: Re: update on **real** 19200 CRT
Message-ID: <15071@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 14:43:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.15071
Posted: Thu Jul 31 14:43:31 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Aug-86 07:48:53 EDT
References: <671@mordred.purdue.UUCP> <71@winfree.UUCP> <2349@cbosgd.UUCP> <604@ulowell.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: mazlack@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Lawrence J. Mazlack)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 47
Keywords: Amiga
Xref: mnetor net.periphs:485 net.micro:5722 net.wanted:3563

In article <604@ulowell.UUCP> page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page) writes:
>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
>-- 
>UUCP: wanginst!ulowell!page	Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept
>VOX:  +1 617 452 5000 x2233	Lowell MA 01854 USA

Bob:

Could you send me an exact list of hardware/software that I would need to
do this. I could then explore doing it with my purchasing people.  (My
micro choice is a Mac - hardly a cost effective way of achieving a 19200
baud terminal.)


Larry Mazlack
  UUCP		{tektronix,dual,sun,ihnp4,decvax}!ucbvax!ucbernie!mazlack
  New style	mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu	
  ARPA | CSNET	mazlack%ernie@berkeley.ARPA
  BITNET   	mazlack@ucbernie.BITNET
  telephone     (415) 528-0496
  snail         CS Dept, 571 Evans, U. California, Berkeley, CA 94720