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From: paul@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Paul Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder performance at 19.2K?
Message-ID: <1462@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Date: 1 Nov 88 23:10:07 GMT
References: <1000@naucse.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@mit-caf.UUCP (Paul Meyer)
Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT
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In article <1000@naucse.UUCP> rwi@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier) writes:
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> I recently bought Red Ryder 10.3 after having been using

> I generally have been quite disappointed at the 19.2k

	Yes, RR is slow.  I don't notice it (much!) at 2400, but 
with 9600 or 19200 direct lines to my VAX you really notice the
loss of speed.  This is on a MacPlus running 6.01 non-multifinder,
and the last pre-6.01 system, also non-multifinder.  As a test, I 
stripped out all inits/CDEVs and anything else I wasn't sure of to see
if something else was slowing it down.  Nope, it's just slow.
	My solution: use Kermit.  Kermit is much faster, a good vt100
emulation (at least in my experience), although it doesn't have the
frills.  The biggest two things I miss from RR in kermit are scrolling
up to text that has scrolled off the top of the screen, and copying and
pasting from the screen.  I use RR when i need those features or scripting.

Paul Meyer
Microsystems Technology Lab
MIT