Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Telix: initial reactions Message-ID: <13372@ncoast.ORG> Date: 29 Jan 89 18:08:02 GMT References: <19505@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <673@ur-cc.UUCP> <176@oregon.uoregon.edu> <2816@ihuxy.ATT.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 27 As quoted from <2816@ihuxy.ATT.COM> by vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal): +--------------- | 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: | >> 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 | | 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! +--------------- I doubt that's it. I use Telix at 9600 baud on 4.77MHz 8088 systems (ITT XTRA, Toshiba T1000) all the time and have no speed problems (I have flow control turned off so I can run Jove, so there's no hidden XON/XOFF stuff making it look like it works). ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser