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- From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: VT100 emulation
- Summary: Windows is the wrong place to do it
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.210723.25718@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 21:07:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: athena.1992Sep13.210723.25718
- References: <92247.223214EJR106@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Sep13.131727.14356@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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- My own considered opinion is that terminal emulation on the PC is best
- done with the screen in DOS full-screen mode (i.e., native VGA text mode),
- not Windows, for one simple reason: SPEED.
-
- The VGA, like its predecessors all the way back to the MDA, is a special
- piece of hardware much of whose circuitry is designed to put _characters_
- on the screen _fast_. Windows discards all this optimization and runs it
- in graphics mode all the time. This is much slower.
-
- And terminal emulation is _exactly_ the application in which you might
- want to put characters on the screen at the rate of a thousand or two
- per second.
-
- For terminal emulation I still use MS-DOS Kermit (an immensely versatile
- program) in DOS full-screen mode, under Windows.
-
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- + Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA
- + Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
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