From: nightfox@DIGDIST.remove-g85-this

To: Digital Man
Hi DM - I was just curious if AVATAR terminal support is supported in Synchronet (and possibly SyncTerm). In the 90s, I had heard of AVATAR as an alternative to ANSI that was able to draw faster (due to shorter control codes). I know of at least one terminal program that supported AVATAR (Telemate, I believe), and I noticed menus drew a bit faster with AVATAR vs. ANSI. But these days, the speed advantage probably wouldn't make much difference with people connecting via telnet on broadband internet..

Nightfox

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From: digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-6bi-this

To: Nightfox
Re: AVATAR terminal support in Synchronet
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Jul 12 2018 09:19 am

Hi DM - I was just curious if AVATAR terminal support is supported in Synchronet (and possibly SyncTerm).

Nope. I've reviewed AVATAR every once in a while (I think there's 2 versions?) - anyway, no motivation to use/support it for me.


digital man

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From: tony.langdon@3:633/410.remove-6bq-this

To: Nightfox

On 07-12-18 09:19, Nightfox wrote to Digital Man <=-

Hi DM - I was just curious if AVATAR terminal support is supported in Synchronet (and possibly SyncTerm). In the 90s, I had heard of AVATAR
as an alternative to ANSI that was able to draw faster (due to shorter control codes). I know of at least one terminal program that supported AVATAR (Telemate, I believe), and I noticed menus drew a bit faster
with AVATAR vs. ANSI. But these days, the speed advantage probably wouldn't make much difference with people connecting via telnet on broadband internet..

Now there's a memory, I had forgotten about AVATAR, but it did work well.
Yeah, think other things are going to slow me down more, it's a low latency 100Mbps acroaa the LAN to the BBS for me now. :)


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