[geeks] argh

[Michael S. Schiller]

David:

While latency can be a pain, I would think that stuff like IRC wouldn't be
effected quite as badly as a remote terminal session, considering that when
you're typing into an irc client, it's storing the line locally, and doesn't
actually send it to the host computer till you hit the return key. Along
those same lines, I remember years ago several terminals had what was called
a 'block mode' whereby rather than sending each keystroke as you typed it, it
stored them locally, only sending the line when you hit the return key (or
some other predefined key). Would it be possible to tell Solaris NOT to echo
keystrokes (when in the block mode the terminal did local echo)? While this
would be a minor pain in the rear for some things I would imagine it would
make the latency *appear* to be less of a problem.

-Mike
David Cantrell wrote:

>
>
> If you can live with the latency.  It makes remote terminal sessions,
> IRC, gaming and the like really rather horrible.  Until recently, I
> worked for a company offering broadband satellite internet access, and
> I couldn't stand having to use it.  The signal had to make a 100,000
> mile round trip (earth to satellite to customer; customer to satellite
> to earth).  At 186,000 miles per second, that's a delay of over half a
> second just to contact my ISP.  No thanks.
>
> Such a product is just fine for web, news, mail, ftp etc, but totally
> inappropriate for users like most of us.
>
> --
> David Cantrell | cthulhu at unixbeard.net | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
>
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>    in the world" which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
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