Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!SMITHKLINE.COM!WOOD From: WOOD@SMITHKLINE.COM ("Bill Wood, Upper Merion IS X5163 L331") Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: New Graphon X terminal at 9600 baud over modem Message-ID: <8902220455.AA27885@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 22 Feb 89 04:56:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 In article dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) writes: >In article <2566@antique.UUCP> hpk@antique.UUCP (Howard Katseff) writes: >> [various questions about SLIP and X] >I have a 9600 baud SLIP line from home, so I can give you a brief >summary of what to expect ... NOTHING!!. 9600 is WAY too slow to run >X over. I have tried to run clients on the office machines, while >using my home machine as the display. Its painful! The windows paint >in little bursts, which makes you think you have a 300 baud modem. >For a summary, it would be very slow going, X was designed for a high >speed network. I use X at 9600 baud all the time, and the response is fabulous! My secret is the new Graphon X terminal. This terminal uses a Graphon protocol to communicate with the host computer, so it avoids the 3 layers of protocol inherent in X over SLIP (you have the X protocol, the SLIP protocol, and the TCPIP protocol). The Graphon communicates directly with an X server running on a Unix machine. Right now I am connected to a 9600 baud Microcom modem, which is dialed in to work; there it connects to another modem, thence to a Dec terminal server running LAT protocol. From there, I am connected to another terminal server which is offering the serial port on a Sun 3 as a service. The Sun, in turn, is running Graphon's X server. I have an xterm session, and from it I did an rlogin to our Vax system, and sent this message. You have to try this terminal to believe it. ICO runs like a bat out of hell! And there are virtually no memory restrictions, since the server is on the Sun. - Bill Wood wood@smithkline.com