why is 3b1 screen so SLOW ?

[John Wilkes]

In article <1701 at electron.mips.COM> wilkes at electron.UUCP (that's ME!) writes:
>In article <864 at hsi.UUCP> stevens at hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
>>Also, what is everyone else using with Telebits, instead of
>>cu and the (ugh) ATE package ??  
[...]
>Another possibility might be kermit, but I've not tried it.

Well, I decided to give kermit a test spin with the 'Blazer.  Using it
right now, in fact.  Seems to update the screen a little faster than mdm,
though it's a little hard to tell.  Kermit also seems a little jerkier in
its writing to the screen.  In emacs, for instance, if I type a ^A to go to
the beginning of a line, the cursor often does not move until I type a few
more characters.  Is this the 'Blazer packetizing in action, or is it the
way kermit updates the screen.  I have not tried any file transfers with
kermit yet, though I intend to shortly.  I set my protocol to support
kermit (s111=10), so we'll see...

By the way, my kermit is version 4E(067) 14 Sept 87.  I believe this is the
Kevin O'Gorman version.  When in connect mode, it uses native mode, not
vt100/ansi emulation.  Which reminds me, I seem to remember someone posting
an enhanced termcap for the unix-pc, but I can't seem to find it.  Anybody
have a better termcap than what's in /etc/termcap???

John Wilkes
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