Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!gadi From: gadi@clitus.cs.uiuc.edu (Gadi Friedman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: vt100 terminal software Message-ID: <1990Mar8.041035.27358@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Mar 90 04:10:35 GMT References: <490534e1.1b80e@scuzz.engin.umich.edu> <90064.233949SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Mar7.155826.25065@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: gadi@cs.uiuc.edu Distribution: na Organization: U of Illinois, CS Dept., Systems Research Group Lines: 27 dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes: >Another problem is that the interrupt servicing overhead on a //e (or >//c) is pretty high. After the firmware and ProDOS have finished >ignoring the interrupt, at least one or two characters have been lost >IF YOU'RE GOING OVER 2400 BAUD. I've not had anyone complain of >lossage at 2400 baud, but they have for 4800 and 9600. At those >speeds, you'd want a Zip chip or something. >-- >Dave Whitney My vote is for Softerm II. It does a great vt100 and will not lose characters on a IIe, II+, IIe enhanced etc. even at 9600bps. They wrote their own serial card and screen drivers and modified DOS to get things to work. This program does, however cost $195 and is NOT user friendly. It will only run from floppies, and can tranfer files to CPM,PASCAL, DOS 3.3 or Prodos formatted disks. Finally, it only does xmodem, not any of the newer protocols. Gadi. PS, my version is about 3 years old. I've seen their add in the recent A+ and you can contact them for updated info.