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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
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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?

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