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From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Telix: initial reactions
Message-ID: <2816@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 89 14:43:45 GMT
References: <19505@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <673@ur-cc.UUCP> <176@oregon.uoregon.edu>
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In article <176@oregon.uoregon.edu> goes@oregon.uoregon.edu (Jim Goes) writes:
>In article <673@ur-cc.UUCP>, joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota) writes:
>> 
>> I did the same thing recently (Check my review of terminal programs a few
>> weeks ago) and found Telix to be fantastic except for one major flaw ...
>> it's too damned slow to use at 9600 baud.
>-- 
>Au contraire.  Must be a problem on your end, not the software.  Possibly the 
>interface between Telix and 9600b modems?  I regularly use Telix 3.11 to
>accesss IBM and VAX mainframes over a TCP/IP network at 19,200 and have no 
>speed problems.
>Jim Goes                      |  InterNet   GOES@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU 

The max. speed possible is probably a function of the CPU speed of your
machine.  Each character coming in generates an interrupt, and the interrupt
has to be processed fully before the next character can arrive for proper
operation.  Compare your CPU speeds!

Venu P. Gopal
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