ADM = ? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 May 2001

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 &lt;uban(a)ubanproductions.com&gt;
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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