Eric.Bohlman@p1.f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org (Eric Bohlman) (06/04/91)
Index Number: 15942 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] DC> action. The thing is, they use dumb terminals there and maybe they DC> were telling the truth, but they never asked me about adaptive A dumb terminal can almost always be simulated with a PC running a terminal program, which solves the speech problem. Using a PC as a dumb terminal is hardly esoteric; everybody on this (and every other echo) is doing it all the time. The fact that a computer gets connected directly to another one rather than through a modem doesn't change anything. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!115!778.1!Eric.Bohlman Internet: Eric.Bohlman@p1.f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org