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From: taso@munnari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Terminal baud rates and system throughput
Message-ID: <1566@munnari.oz>
Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 02:33:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 18 02:33:40 1987
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Reply-To: taso@munnari.UUCP (Taso Hatzi)
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I recently had occasion to work at a site where virtually all
terminals where connected through MUXServers.  The system manager(s)
held the baud rate on these terminals down to 4800 `in the interests of
system performance'.  Apart from any discouraging effect that the low baud
rate might have on a terminal user contemplating whether she should refresh
her screen or not, what are the technical merits of the low baud rate
policy?  (Interestingly, the few directly connected terminals were run at
9600 baud or higher).