[misc.handicap] The meaning of life

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.

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