Joe asks:

> I have a client who is running about 150 terminals on a 957 and he is happy
>  with the performance he is getting, but if he has even 10 PC's connect via
>  telnet, the performance on the 957 seems to go all to heck.  Is this a
>  known problem or a mystery or what?

From all of the reports that we're getting, telnet is putting any substantial
load on any HP3000 that we've seen. Indeed, it's presence seems to be almost
unmeasurable. It's more than likely something else is the problem. James
Hoffmeister in his posting of just a few days ago was a great deal more
reserved about telnet's performance than I would have been, but he did say:
"Note: The feedback I have heard from the folks out here on the 3000-l news
group is that Telnet performance is great."

Is the user running a telnet card in a DTC or is he running host-based
telnet? We've certainly had no performance problems at all with host-based.


>  Also, he asked me to recommend a terminal emulator which would give him a
>  reasonable terminal; he doesn't want to spend the big bucks for Reflection
>  and he doesn't want any other capabilities than a simple terminal, either
>  HP or WYSE or VT-100.

Believe it or not, there are now three free terminal emulators for the
HP3000: QCTerm, ScreenJet, and Zebra. QCTerm is at:

     http://aics-research.com/qcterm

Wirt Atmar

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