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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 21 13:49:01 1987
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Reply-To: loverso@gloria.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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> 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