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From: katzung@laidbak.UUCP (Brian Katzung)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Using a PC for a terminal
Message-ID: <1075@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 00:19:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: laidbak.1075
Posted: Sat Jun 13 00:19:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 18:51:34 EDT
References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM> <6828@mimsy.UUCP> <16906@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1731@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: katzung@laidbak.UUCP (Brian Katzung)
Organization: Lachman Associates, Inc, Chicago
Lines: 23
Keywords: termcap, curses
Summary: Real terminals don't always keep up either

- From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
- Some (all?) PC/clones cannot keep up with speeds > 4800 baud in the VT100
- terminal emulator (they lose bursts of characters, even with Xon-Xoff flow
- control).  You want a PC, you buy a PC.  You want a terminal, well, I hope
- you get an AT&T terminal (plug plug :-) ).
- -- 
- |------------dan levy------------|  Path: ..!{akgua,homxb,ihnp4,ltuxa,mvuxa,
- |         an engihacker @        |		vax135}!ttrdc!ttrda!levy
- |    at&t data systems division  |  Disclaimer:  try datclaimer.
- |--------skokie, illinois--------|

It sounds as if you're suggesting that any AT&T terminal will keep up at
speeds greater than 4800 baud!  I have news for you:  not all of them do.
The one I have in mind has no host flow control.

If you want something that really works, I hope you test it before you buy
it (or can get a refund), or forever hold your PC!

Brian Katzung
(A contractor at AT&T Information Systems, Naperville, Illinois)

The comments expressed here are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the
views of my employer or my client.