Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.protocols.misc Subject: Re: 9600 baud problems (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!) Message-ID: <886@geac.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 09:56:27 EDT Article-I.D.: geac.886 Posted: Thu Jul 9 09:56:27 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 08:08:31 EDT References: <14358@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <8707071528.AA02320@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown) Distribution: world Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star Lines: 22 Xref: mnetor comp.emacs:1367 comp.protocols.misc:106 In article <8707071528.AA02320@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson) writes: >Agreed. Better to use a real communications protocol based on >packets, like say X.25. Or even Kermit. Not likely to appear in a >terminal near you soon, but at least PCs generally can all do this sort >of thing now. /jr They may not be appearing in terminals, but X.PC and MNP are certainly appearing in *modems*: I have two friends who make their living writing packet protocols that run in about 2.5 sq in of board space inside several modems. And TYMNET has a X.PC to X.25 gateway facility (down thar in the excited states (:-)), so one can Emac away happily 1200 miles from one's host with minimal flow-control and delay problems. [cf my earlier rant about negotiated echo on x.25] -- David (Collier-) Brown. | Computer Science Geac Computers International Inc., | loses its memory 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.