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Agreed, heck, I still lament low latency dial-up shell access. Even at 9600 baud it was still more responsive and felt like using a computer in the same room.
by vhold 9y ago
Agreed, heck, I still lament low latency dial-up shell access. Even at 9600 baud it was still more responsive and felt like using a computer in the same room. Chatting with somebody like that, in talk/ytalk/etc, where you could see their every keystroke was a totally different experience because you could even get a vague sense of their thinking process through their pauses and edits.
- dsr_ 9y agoI was using a 9600 baud connection about an hour ago. It sucks rocks. You can see the ascii-menu updating. Everything flickers. (Serial console access to a server, if you really care.) If you run ytalk on a modern machine, it doesn't flicker, but you can still get every keystroke, because that's the protocol.
- BenjiWiebe 9y agoI have a server with ntalk for a few friends and it is my favorite method of non face-to-face communication.