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From: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Telix: initial reactions
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Date: 29 Jan 89 19:51:22 GMT
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Reply-To: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
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Ages ago, I said:
> weeks ago) and found Telix to be fantastic except for one major flaw ...
> it's too damned slow to use at 9600 baud.

And then in article <176@oregon.uoregon.edu> goes@oregon.uoregon.edu (Jim Goes) wrote:
> 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

And then in article <2816@ihuxy.ATT.COM> vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal) wrote:
> 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!

And then finally in article <13372@ncoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) wrote:
>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).

I clearly should have qualified my statement.  I think Gopal was really right.
I don't have flow control problems (I use JOVE too, all the time) - the
problem that I have with Telix (and, incidentally, every other PD/Shareware
terminal emulator I tried) is that these things are just plain slow in
writing to the screen.  I don't lose characters.  What happens is that it
simply takes about 10 times longer (purely subjective measurement) to fill
the screen with text for Telix than it does for Procomm+ ... and it's too
frustrating to wait.

My machine is an 8MHz AT, and that's probably the source of the difference.
So - that's very nice for all of you that have slow machines - I'm glad you
can use a great program like Telix!  Now, could someone get back to the
author of the thing and tell him that he's got a great program that's just
too slow for fast(er) machines?  I wish I could use it!

Josh
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