I wrote a moment ago

> On the whole, this patch makes telnet enormously more usable on the HP3000
>  than the current release that is in all versions of MPE 5.5 pp4 to 6.0 pp1.
>  Until you receive this new version of telnet on the HP3000, you should
>  continue to use standard telnet mode in QCTerm, which is, of course, the
> only version currently available in WRQ & Minisoft's emulators.

When I wrote this final paragraph, I was being talked to by several people at
that moment. Let me rewrite it to say what I meant:

"On the whole, this patch makes long-distance telnetting enormously more
usable on the HP3000 than the current release that is in all versions of MPE
5.5/pp4 to 6.0/pp1. But if you are only telnetting short distances, on your
local LAN, you won't see a great deal of difference. Thus until you receive
this new version of telnet on the HP3000, you should continue to use standard
telnet mode in QCTerm, which is, of course, the only version currently
available in WRQ & Minisoft's emulators."

Let me also add, however, that I have been spending a great deal of time
telnetting into one of Neil Harvey's machines in Cape Town, South Africa, and
Neil has been doing the same thing, telnetting into our open machine here in
New Mexico. Neil has loaded the same advanced telnet patch on his machines
that we have on ours. It does make a dramatic difference.

Standard telnet connections to Adager in Idaho, who have also been
extraordinarily generous in their support of our development, are sometimes
intolerable -- and sometimes OK -- but advanced telnet makes anywhere in
North America a local connection. And because of NHA's kind help, we're
continuing to improve the efficiencies of QCTerm to the point that an
"app-on-tap" run from anywhere on the planet is clearly now going to be a
psychologically acceptable process. I'm actually becoming impressed with this
myself. I recently showed off the newest form of advanced telnet connections
to Neil's machine in South Africa to one of our customers from a rather large
firm. His comment was: "Damn, this is faster than the response I get from the
3000 on the floor just below me!"

When you're running an application in Cape Town and things are clicking
along, it's hard to keep reminding yourself how far away Neil is. Moscow is
only half the distance; London is only a third, and Sydney, Australia is only
two-thirds the distance.

I'm beginning to think that there is real value in this networking stuff.

Wirt Atmar