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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: 2400 baud modems and uucp inefficiencies
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Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 05:44:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  3 05:44:16 1984
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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--