Xref: utzoo comp.terminals:764 comp.sys.att:3618 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!cuuxb!cuuxun!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Info about the AT&T 620 terminal Summary: Layers are great but the 3B2 can't hack it well Message-ID: <733@vsi.UUCP> Date: 26 Jun 88 06:35:17 GMT References: <727@vsi.UUCP> <28765@pyramid.pyramid.com> <8161@brl-smoke.ARPA> Distribution: comp Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 18 In article <8161@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes: > I think Carl is right -- if AT&T knew how to push layers, these terminals > could be rather successful. I don't know what I would do without one > (and I don't want to find out, at least not until something like Plan 9 > is ready to take its place). Responding to both Doug and Carl: I've seen layers run on the 615 and the 620, and it is really neat to see. It has been our experience, however, that the 3B2/400 just doesn't have the processor horsepower to make it work well. Interactive work in layers on the 615 is so sluggish that we use a pair of terminals rather than run layers -- it's that bad. Has anybody had other experiences with this? -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. (714) 545-6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl Nancy Reagan on the Free Software Foundation : "Just say GNU"