Uhmmm try running your terminal at 9600 baud, and see how quickly you get bored with it :) And that's 4 times as fast.
I did this for a while recently because I needed to access something over a serial port and it was not fun. 1200 is really slow.
I did this for a while recently because I needed to access something over a serial port and it was not fun. 1200 is really slow.
E.g. I can refresh a TUI app using MacOS Terminal.app 30x a second using ncurses; but a naive wipe/redraw at that rate produces visible flickering and artifacts.
In the end I pumped the terminal speed up to 115k2 and it still felt very slow. Especially quickly paging through logfiles with 'less'. I remember spending part of my college days on green screen 9600 baud terminals (before they bought enough X terminals for everyone) and they felt snappy back in the day. And there was already a lot of TUI stuff going on back then. And in those days I didn't even know about gnu screen (or today's tmux) yet!
I think I've just gotten spoilt with today's computer performance.
I used 9600 setting up an rs/6000 last week, and it was fast enough that I didn't notice.
I live in a weird alternate universe.
I love that old stuff, and figuring out how to use their boot managers etc. On the Netras the configuration is actually stored on a smart card. Very cool.