Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!utai!garfield!dalcs!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sunybcs!loverso From: loverso@sunybcs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: wyse 60 experience requested Message-ID: <4174@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 13:49:01 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.4174 Posted: Tue Jul 21 13:49:01 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jul-87 01:41:49 EDT References: <3468@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <528@ollie.UUCP> Reply-To: loverso@gloria.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 31 > i understand that it [Wyse 60] ... has a IBM PC/AT style keyboard available You can get a number of different keyboards for it - including a PC-style one > i heard some rumors when it first came out that it was not fast enough to > keep up with 9600 baud output without flow control. is that still the case? I had one on demo after it came out. I could barely keep up at 9600 baud, and at 19200 baud you needed so much padding that curses-intensive applications looked like they were running at 9600 baud. At either speed, the output from `yes' was enough to give all the terminal's processing time to video updating, effectively locking out the keyboard. At 19200, outputing 16 chars and then a CR would have the same effect. My Wyse 75 doesn't have these problems. > Well, it's cheap, and for the price, it gets you 43 lines x 132 > columns, with real underlining and inverse video. But the feature > I miss the most is ANSI/VT100 compatibility, particularly in that > the number pad can't be set up to send useful escape sequences. > The default fonts are awful for 43x132 mode, but better ones can be > downloaded. Actually, since Wyse discontinued the Wyse75, they've added an ANSI/VT100 compatibility mode to the Wyse60. I think you can get new proms to upgrade an older 60. I have been planning on getting a newer one for demo to see if they've fixed the speed problems. I just can't see using a terminal that can barely support 9600 baud (I like 19200 or 38400). I had the same problem with the HDS2000 - its a *great* terminal with nice features, but it has the same speed problems as the Wyse60. John