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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: VT100's keeping up at high baud rates
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Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 21:35:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 29 21:35:03 1987
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In article <8959@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
[edited discussion on 'need' for flow control in terminals and how fast
 a human can read]
> I doubt you could read a terminal running at 1200b for a sustained
> period of time, yet I'd bet you prefer a higher speed. Why?
> 
>   Two good examples of this are Emacs' incremental
> search where often a squinty-eyed view of the screen tells you you
> need another screenful (eg. looking for a function definition, you
> don't need to even focus your eyes to see you haven't found it yet in
> most languages) and games (ok, maybe not the most serious application,
> but I think it's an example of something.)
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Here's an actual example: a few years ago I worked a part time job
in collge typesetting for a print shop.  Sometimes I'd would have to
look over someone else's work on the computer and correct spelling.
When I read the file off of disk, the file displayed on the screen at
about 4800-9600 baud.  I was able to catch most of the spelling errors
while it was displayed at that rate.  My employer thought that I was joking
around when I did this, but when I went exactly to the mistakes and
corrected them, she thought I had pretty good reading.

My personal view on the terminal update speed, computer speed, compiler
speed, etc. is simple: *FASTER* *BETTER* *STRONGER*!  We have the
techology (to quote the Six Million Dollar Man).

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