Re: Terminal Emulation

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <46dt3i$ed2@colossus.csl.mtu.edu>,
Joshua P. Onge <jponge@mtu.edu> wrote:
>1) Since all I'm going to be doing is transferring text data, do I need a
>very fast modem.  Am I going to see a substantial difference between say a
>300 baud modem and a 14,400 baud modem.  Can a IIc even handle a 14,400 or
>a 9,600 baud connection?

   Well, at 4800 baud, if I recall correctly one line of text took
about half a second to be received and drawn. (Roommate's 386/40,
running Telix under Dos). Since I'm a pretty fast reader (roughly 300
wpm for normal stuff, have peaked at near 2000 for a moderate skimming
while on caffeine :), 4800 was just enough not to drive me mad. Cut
that by a factor of 16 for a 300 baud modem-- a line of text would
take a few seconds to display.

   14.4 was livable-- a secreen full of text would pop up in a second
or few, but not sure if a //c could really handle it.


>2) What Software should I use.  I guess I want to emulate a VT220 or
>something (Actually I have no idea what that means).  Will this Proterm
>program I here about work.  If so where can I get.  (A decent freeware or
>shareware program would be preffered, as I do not want to spend a lot of
>money on this.)

   Zterm was supposed to be a good shareware program for //es & //cs.
Proterm's the best, but is commercial. Vt100 is all you need to do--
any decent unix box supports it it, and it's got enough commands that
you can do pretty much all the fun things for programs like emacs,
screen, news, etc.

Nathan Mates


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