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It got really bad when the BBS got all fancy and colorful with the ANSI graphics. Every character displayed might require 6 or 7 bytes down the wire to change
by jandrese 1y ago
It got really bad when the BBS got all fancy and colorful with the ANSI graphics. Every character displayed might require 6 or 7 bytes down the wire to change the foreground and background color so your 2400 baud modem acted like a 300 baud modem or worse.