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From: hansen@mips.UUCP (Craig Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: wyse 60 experience requested
Message-ID: <528@ollie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 14:24:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: ollie.528
Posted: Fri Jul 17 14:24:42 1987
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Summary: piece of s**t

In article <3468@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, allyn@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Allyn Fratkin) writes:
> i'd like to hear from users of the wyse 60 what they think of it.

> i understand that it has lots of emulation modes and has a IBM PC/AT
> style keyboard available for it (no flames please, it's what i'm
> used to).

	To get to all the whizzy features, you need to use native mode,
	and native mode has the unfortunate feature of having nearly
	all control codes bounds to really nasty functions. For example,
	the terminal initialization sequence for a Wyse75 causes a
	Wyse60 to lock its keyboard.

> 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?

	It needs lots of padding at 19200. I don't use 9600 baud.

> is it a good terminal?

	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.

-- 
Craig Hansen
Manager, Architecture Development
MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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