I used them myself for the two years I went to college (the
school had a PDP-11/70 I think). As for speed, have you
ever looked inside one of these things?
Late one nite, I had nothing better to do than poke around
stuff in the computer lab; indide I found one *big* board,
covered with what I think was TTL. No uP, all random logic,
*no* processing overhead.
Talk about 'real time' . . . ..
On Thu, 24 May 2001 13:37:20 -0500 Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
writes:
> At the time, they were fairly cheap in comparison to other "more
> intelligent"
> terminals, and they were one of the few which could keep up at a
> full serial
> line rate without handshaking. I worked at Purdue University's
> Engineering
> Computer Network back in the early 80's and we used then for that
> reason. Most
> ran at either 9600 or 19200, but we modified a few to run at 38400
> and they
> could keep up with that speed as well...
>
> --tom
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