Re: Internet Service Providers

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Dark_Dude@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org (Dark_Dude) writes...

>In Article <13JAN199719084438@vax2.concordia.ca>,
><spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>
>>latest version of Spectrum should be the nicest solution, if you
>>happen to have a Second Sight card (one of the only productive uses
>>it has so far, true VT-100/ANSI emulation).
>  
>How fast will the display be? Will it still loose characters, etc? I have a SS
>card without ROM (Should call SSystems to mail me one back! It's been since
>October 1995!!). I don't have Spectrum, but I'm just curious...

    I would assume as fast as the text display in ProTERM. The latest
version of Spectrum (version 2.1) makes use of the character generator
built-in to the Oak 087 VGA chipset. In otherwords, what is displayed
on screen is a _true_ color ANSI or VT-100 text display, identical to
what you would get with PC terminal programs (i.e. ProComm Plus). It
is not a graphics emulation of text, so there should be no slow down.

    It seems the Second Sight board has become the 80 columns card of 
the 90's for the Apple IIgs (the character generator built-in to the
GS's VGC chip is from the Apple IIe, so characters are generally small 
and fuzzy compared with a PC ANSI display). Unfortunately, this is about 
all I can say for the Second Sight.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca