From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!malcolm
Newsgroups: net.notes
Title: Re: notes at 1200 baud is slow! - (nf)
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.514
Posted: Thu Aug 19 01:26:01 1982
Received: Fri Aug 20 02:36:46 1982

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pur-ee!malcolm    Aug 18 23:36:00 1982

The problem is even worse at 300 baud over dialup.  There are two things
that I do to make notes tolerable over dialup.  The cleanest is to use the
flush-output (^O) of the Berkeley TTY driver.  I also keep a bowl ov
cereal in hand and read notes during breakfast.  Between the two it isn't
too bad.

One approach that I would like to see pursued is for someone to write
an interface that looks like the simple-minded Beta news approach.  Having
only three commands (ynq) would make it a lot easier for a lot of our users.
Most of the Profs here haven't even figured out Berkeley Mail, let alone
something as involved as notes.  The beta news interface also has the
advantage that it makes very efficent use of the bandwidth when being
used over dialup.  After people figure out that they really do want to
keep up with the news then they can put the effort in to learn the nice
interface.

							Malcolm