[HECnet] LAT vs CTERM

Wed Jan 2 04:40:02 PST 2013

sampsa at mac.com writes: 

On 2 Jan 2013, at 14:03, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote: 

On 2 Jan 2013, at 11:20, sampsa at mac.com wrote: > >> So LAT is as fast
over a WAN link as CTERM is over a LAN..What's wrong with CTERM? > > 

I could see that on like Z80s running over a 9.6kbps link, but VAX level
gear on a 10 Mbps ethernet LAN? 

It can't be the protocol overhead alone, CTERM must be seriously
brain-damaged by design. 

Just curious.   What do the numbers look like when you use RTERM in lieu 
of CTERM???

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