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9600bps is 1200cps which is plenty for remote echo to keep up with even a fast typist; I think that has a lot to do with why it feels snappy. Some web pages ca
by cout 5y ago
9600bps is 1200cps which is plenty for remote echo to keep up with even a fast typist; I think that has a lot to do with why it feels snappy.
Some web pages can't keep up with a moderately fast typist, even though it's all rendered locally.
- onion2k 5y agoWhen I was at university I tinkered with writing a MUD app that ran on telnet over a modem that would echo back inputs. It was incredibly slow once there were more than 4 or 5 users because my code sucked. I can't use that as evidence that modems weren't fast enough. It seems obvious that how quickly a web page can refresh is entirely down to the skill of the developers who created it. There's nothing inherently slow about a web page - plenty of pages update quickly enough. Browsers are fast. Some userspace code is not. If you're using a page that doesn't work fast enough that's down to the developer, not the web itself.