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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Using a PC for a terminal
Message-ID: <1017@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jun-87 15:14:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmum.1017
Posted: Sun Jun 14 15:14:26 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 19:58:28 EDT
References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM> <6828@mimsy.UUCP> <1075@laidbak.UUCP> <94@spked.UUCP>
Reply-To: smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <94@spked.UUCP> davev@spked.UUCP (Systems Integrator van De Kerk) writes:
] In article <1075@laidbak.UUCP>, katzung@laidbak.UUCP (Brian Katzung) writes:
] ] ] From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
] ] ] Some (all?) PC/clones cannot keep up with speeds > 4800 baud in the VT100
] ] ] terminal emulator (they lose bursts of characters, even with Xon-Xoff flow
] ] ] control).  You want a PC, you buy a PC.  You want a terminal, well, I hope
] ] ] you get an AT&T terminal (plug plug :-) ).
] ] It sounds as if you're suggesting that any AT&T terminal will keep up at
] ] speeds greater than 4800 baud!  I have news for you:  not all of them do.
] ] The one I have in mind has no host flow control.
] ] Brian Katzung
] Some terminals will keep up with 4800, or 9600, and a Wyse 75 keeps up pretty
] darn well at 19200.  BTW, the AT&T terminals I've seen don't keep up
] well, but I don't have exact figures.

I am using an AT Clone, running a VT102 emulation package (Terminal Emulator
and File Transfer 2.40a), and it is having no trouble at 19200 baud, using
only XON/XOFF (no hardware flow control).  I am connected to a Sytek box by
50 feet of 4 conductor telephone wire from Radio Shack.  BTW, "vi" really flies
at 19.2KB.