Re: 7.2 terminal woes

[Roy M Turner <royt@pravda.gatech.edu>]

Hear, hear!  I get faster response logged in from home at 1200 baud than
with the terminal emulator.  We mercifully got vt100 to work--mostly--and I'll
be happy to post the termcaps we use.  There are still some problems,
though--Emacs doesn't know where to position the cursor sometimes, reverse
video is excruciatingly slow (what the %^&* does it do, anyway, use a separate
process to fill in each pixel???), little things like that.  But mainly, it is
painfully slow--and if the lisp machine is doing anything else (like compiling
in the lisp listener), well, might as well read a book between characters in
the terminal emulator.  

Overall, I am really pleased with 7.2, but let's face it, the terminal
emulator is pathetic.  If Symbolics is unwilling (surely not unable?!) to do
anything about it, does ANYONE out there have code to do a decent, fast vt100
emulation on the Lispm's? Please?

Thanks.
	--Roy Turner