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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: BYTE high speed modem article
Keywords: BYTE magazine article, high speed modems
Message-ID: <11839@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 88 09:57:52 GMT
References: <12997@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <11112@steinmetz.ge.com> <6854@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <6854@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> lim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu
(Kian-Tat Lim) writes:
>They ran all the modems at 9600 as that was the maximum rated I/O speed for
>some of them.

That is a terrible reason.  By that reasoning, they should have run them
at 300 bps, because there are some modems with 300 bps as their top speed.
If you buy a modem that can run >9600 bps, you will probably run it >9600
bps.

Now, that most communications programs cannot keep up at 9600, much
less 19200, bps *is* a valid reason ... but then they should have gone
with the lowest common denominator, which is probably around 4800 bps
(although I have seen systems that struggled with *that* rate).  What
they *really* should have done, though, was to run each at all supported
speeds, and listed each *at each speed*.
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