Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version VT3.4 8/17/84; site vortex.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!vortex!lauren From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) Newsgroups: net.news,net.dcom Subject: Re: 2400 baud modems and uucp inefficiencies Message-ID: <412@vortex.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 05:44:16 EDT Article-I.D.: vortex.412 Posted: Wed Oct 3 05:44:16 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 06:00:41 EDT References: <184@oliveb.uucp> Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles Lines: 17 I've done some testing of my own regarding the merits of full-duplex UUCP communications, given the typical mail/news patterns we see and a variety of fairly complex technical factors. I did this when examining various ideas to improve efficiency in my own uucp implementations. I finally decided that the added complexity was considerably greater than any real gain in overall efficiency, and that other factors (including system load among other things) tended to swamp out any minor benefits. I decided to leave the protocol alone, other than to allow larger packet sizes under certain conditions (which is also of questionable real efficiency, but doesn't seem to hurt in most cases). Overall though, it seemed best to leave well enough alone. I have some detailed notes on this that I'll try to dig up and post to these groups. --Lauren--