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From: swalton@well.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Picking a terminal emulator
Message-ID: <1602@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 16:03:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  8 16:03:03 1986
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Reply-To: swalton@well.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton)
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Keywords: amiga terminal emulation

In article <1474@amiga.amiga.UUCP> andy@skipper.UUCP (andy finkel) writes:
>1) Use the SDCMD_QUERY for the serial device, to find out how many
>   characters the device has waiting, then get exactly that number.
>

Do you mean that I can open up my ports to the serial device and do an
SDCMD_QUERY without having done a SendIO or DoIO first, and it will tell
me how many characters it has in its read buffer?

>AmigaTerm (our terminal program, soon to be shipped with the modem
>for the Amiga, and maybe seperately) has a slightly higher throughput
>than a DEC VT101 (but slightly lower than a CIT-101).

I'm not sure this is all that impressive (sorry, Andy).  A VT100 has only
a 64 character buffer, which fills up pretty quickly at 9600 baud.  The
real question is, what is the maximum baud rate for which AmigaTerm doesn't
need flow control?

Steve Walton