TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (09/24/88)
This is probably of interest to < 1% of those receiving it, but here goes anyway. I recently acquired a board called a PC Transporter (manufacturer, Applied Engineering) which turns an Apple IIGS (and others of the II series; I have the GS) into an IBM PC clone (it uses a V-30 chip and runs about three times as fast as an XT). The main point is that it comes with software that uses the available Apple peripherals to emulate IBM peripherals. ANYWAY, the emulation of the IBM serial channels (COM1 etc.) is just enough slow that the released version of the system can't quite handle 2400 baud under either kermit 2.31 or 2.29. I talked to Applied Engineering, who is aware of the problem, and received from them a beta version of new software that is a little bit faster. But not quite enough: kermit 2.31 still loses characters too often to be useful; 2.29 however has enough shorter paths that it seems OK, although not perfect. (this is under VT102 emulation; doesn't seem to matter much if one steps down to the dumber terminal types; file transfer however under any configuration I've tried has absolutely no problems: tens of kilobytes without a single error (we have high quality local loop lines here.))