Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!husc6!bloom-beacon!ardent.UUCP!jkh From: jkh@ardent.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X Terminals & SLIP Message-ID: <8807141753.AA00830@scrod.ardent.com> Date: 14 Jul 88 17:52:57 GMT References: <9740039@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 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