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From: jkh@ardent.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Terminals & SLIP
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Date: 14 Jul 88 17:52:57 GMT
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John raised an interesting point.. Modern modems (like telebits) will indeed
do compression, if requested. What's more, they'll do error checking. What's
wrong with building SLIP networks that assume that the underlying hardware
will take care of most of the grungyness you mentioned?

					Jordan