[HECnet] Tops-20 Terminal Buffers?

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Mon Nov 15 06:08:09 PST 2021



> On Nov 14, 2021, at 7:27 PM, Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
> I did a transfer of the same file to an iMac and was very surprised to find that I got 4,000 byte packet size and a transfer rate 151.78 KBps.  That's right, using the NI resulted in a speed increase of 17%.  I instrumented Kermit to report the allocated monitor buffers by line type and got the table below from various sign ons, viz:
> 
>   TTY line Type:   FE   PTY  NRT  TVT  CTM
>   Input Buffers:    1    1    1    1    1
>   Output Buffers:   2    1    2    4    2
> 
> The abbreviations are as follows:
> ...
> 	• CTM, DECnet CTERM (I forget what CTERM abbreviates to)

"Network Command Terminal Specification" says the protocol spec.

	paul




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