jim@parsely.UUCP (Jim Stapleton) (06/25/87)
Have any of you guys ever tried a Wyse 50? We have two here at work which we run at 38.4K baud. NO FLOW CONTROL. Really! So what's the deal? Is there some difference between the Wyse breed and things like VT's? We have one VT-220. We don't use if much-- we don't like it. We paid $250.00 but I hear the whole family goes for +$500.00 (?) Both of the Wyse 50's we have were ~$490.00 each. I see now you can get them for $420.00 if you look a bit. While speaking with a friend, I learned that maybe the VT-220 had more to it than I first thought. (It was almost a year before I knew the VT had uploading of fonts.) So what makes the VT family worth buying? Jim Stapleton UUCP: ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!parsely!jim
derrick@auvax.UUCP (Derrick Rowlandson) (06/26/87)
In article <273@parsely.UUCP>, jim@parsely.UUCP (Jim Stapleton) writes: > So what makes the VT family worth buying? > One thing making vt's undesirable is the unnecesarry lenght of their control codes, placing an extra burden on the I/O processors, and unibus's can be flaky when handling large amounts of I/O. trouble is much software out there will only run on a vt type terminal. derick
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (06/29/87)
Unibus's are not flakey unless you are putting flakey peripherals on them or otherwise violating the design rules. What does happen is they get loaded (which is more a function of the CPU and I/O controller). DZ's with their one interrupt per character output will rapidly saturate a small computer with just a few lines at 9600 baud. -Ron