CPU usage of telnetd

[Phil Ngai]

There's a vendor who wants to sell me an ethernet interface that looks
like a DMF serial interface. (actually, there's several of them) They
claim telnetd uses a lot of resources. I was dubious but then I used
the 'top' utility and saw a telnetd doing continous output at an
effective rate of 9600 baud uses 20% of a 780.

It sounds like the vendor is right. Any comments? Are there any
implementations of telnetd which are more efficient or is this just
inherent in the nature of the system?
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