Subj : Re: RIP 1.54 and telnet
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Sat Dec 17 2022 11:22:34

On 16 Dec 2022 at 08:52a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>  Al> Avatar was significantly quicker than ansi for reasons I don't know.
 Ni> 
 Ni> It's because Avatar used fewer bytes/characters for its codes than ANSI.

This is certainly true.  Most BBS software I've seen
seems pretty inefficient when it comes to minimizing
the number the amount of terminal-control data they
send to the client.  Probably BBSes would have felt a
lot snappier if they'd known more about efficient
techniques for implementing row-replacment.

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