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At the time I had it long, there may not have been loveual reclbuttifications, but there were certainly...
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Plus the time it's Xoff-ed, at 9600 the VT100 needs flow control. Max data rate without flow control in glbutt tty mode is 4800. Fancy stuff, eg erase in display can take up to (IIRC) 40ms a time.
We usually used process control VDUs that could do a true 9600: there's no easy way to do flow control on PDP8 OS8, so if we needed to use a VT100 on an -8 we had to set it down to 4800, and yank out the -8 interface board to flip dil switches. Ok, we sometimes cheated, for interactive short command line stuff and KL8E output you could get away with 9600 and with luck guess any overruns from context.
Using smooth scroll to reduce data rate perhaps not a good idea. I'd rather the VAX (ours was an 11-780 :( ) devote its limited char input capability to handling keyboard stuff from interactive users than handling the extra Xon-off traffic generated by smooth scroll.
Finally they adopted a carrot to go with the stick, and gave me an 11-73 to edit and buttemble on. All to myself. I'll agree with most of that. VTEDIT was ok under...
Yup, the eye brain takes longer to digest apparently random movement than scrolling text.
If I needed the lights, it was the 11-05 owned by the guys next door. About 10us for a mem-mem move. Otherwise 11-03s (just as slow) 11-23s (about a fast as an 8E) 11-73s or remotely located 34 and 70 for my FORTRAN. Too cold air conditioning for any hands-on with last two.
RK05s were fast enough for us. Mostly MACRO 11 program development for embedded real time control.
Regards,
David P.