Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: interactive Trailblazers
Message-ID: <1988May8.000738.16103@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10273@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <10277@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Sun, 8 May 88 00:07:38 GMT

> As one of the Trailblazer supporters, frankly, for reading news remotely
> I think I'd prefer the Courier HST - for most interactive applications,
> the Trailblazer is great, but for things like rn and vi where a single
> character is supposed to promote action, the packet delay is noticable
> and irritating...

Are your Trailblazers running rev-4.00 firmware?  The upgrade from rev 3
to rev 4 makes a *spectacular* difference in interactive response.  Before
we upgraded, I'd have been tempted to agree with you.  Not now.

One of the other local sites just got Trailblazed after running for some
time with one of the other 9600-baud modems (don't recall which).  They
aren't running uucp connections via Trailblazer yet due to some throughput
problems in their system.  However, after they tried the Trailblazer out for
interactive use, they put their older 9600-baud modems up for sale.
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