re pc x to following up my own note ted richards ted isgtec com wrote al devilbiss al col hp com wrote it looks like everything works as advertised but i am disappointed with the speed i m using an intel internal k modem in the pc with telebit k on the unix end which are currently limited to kbits by the unix com link to get a quantitative comparison i did cat file where file is kbyte uncompressed ascii text and it took seconds to scroll through an x window over the modem link chars sec using the identical hardware and procomm fw the same cat file takes seconds chars sec btw i use ncd pc xview on my pc at work hp every day for the same unix access from a pc over a lan and like that just fine the same cat file scrolls by in seconds on the lan connection i just tried a few experiments i cat d a byte file lines under various scenarios pc xview for dos in a full screen os window x x sec telix dos in an os window xs x sec telix dos is a full screen os window standard vga sec telix dos in a windows window x x sec uw win in a seamless os window x x gave up after min uw win in windows x x faster but gave up after min uw win in a seamless os window using pg sec could have been a little faster i had to keep hitting the space bar i was using an ati wonder xl video card by the way so pc xview for dos looks pretty good and the line by line scrolling in os desktop looks pathetic although full page redraws are pretty good i tried it under pc xview using my normal x bold or x font and with a very small font and there was no difference in the times the modem receive light was on pretty solidly so it looks like the bottleneck was the baud modem not the screen drawing ted richards ted isgtec com uunet ca isgtec ted isg technologies inc airport rd mississauga ont canada l v s
