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From: tod@parsely.UUCP (Tod Oace)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Fast terminals (was VT100's keeping up at high baud rates)
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Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 20:28:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 20:28:00 1987
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Well me, I'm a Wyse 50 fan.  We've got a couple of Wyse 50's (as well as
some other terminals) with flow control turned OFF hooked up to a Stride 440
zipping along at 38.4K baud without any sluggishness problems whatsoever.
I've noticed that when I turn flow control on, the Wyse actually slows down
a little bit (it actually starts doing flow control! :-) ), so we just leave
it off and it works fine.

Wyse 30's don't seem quite as fast.  VTxxx terminals seem even slower.
Of course Wyse 50s aren't perfect...  They've got magic cookies.  They
don't have programmable character fonts, windows, or other fancy things
like that.  But they do at least insert and delete lines, and they sure
are (relatively) fast!
								-Tod