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Article #9345Re: Communications Prog Text Speed Differences
From: Leonard Rosenthol
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:21
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:21
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In article <derosa.724920219@mica> motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net writes: >I did some testing lately when I happened to notice >that one of my many comm tools was quite a bit >faster than the others. Specifically if I send >to the screen the contents of a 10K file, I found >that VersaTerm was 4 times faster than either >SmartCom, White Knight, Zterm or MicroPhone. > How exactly did you "send to the screen"? Depending on how you did it, you may not have gotten an accurate measure of screen performance. If you did the equivalent of "send local" that would not be accurate because you would be measure the text send speed plus a special "local echo" mode of the communications software. A real test would be to have an application (of some form on some platform) simply dumping raw data across a valid connection - at Software Ventures we used to use a Unix box and just 'cat' files since that was a common "real world" test. I think you will find that Smartcom has the best screen speeds (of the products you mentioned), followed by MicroPhone (4.0), VersaTerm, ZTerm and White Knight somewhere at the bottom. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol Internet: leonardr@netcom.com Director of Advanced Technology AppleLink: MACgician Aladdin Systems, Inc. GEnie: MACgician
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!leonardr From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Communications Prog Text Speed Differences Message-ID: <1992Dec21.162145.6049@netcom.com> Date: 21 Dec 92 16:21:45 GMT References: <derosa.724920219@mica> Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Lines: 27