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From: wendell@medsys.UUCP (bbs amiga user)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Serial.Device idea?
Keywords: Serial, MNP
Message-ID: <800@medsys.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 89 01:29:34 GMT
References: <1326@mcrware.UUCP> <11695@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <2190@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: Med-Systems, Kingsport, TN
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Net Folks, here's my idea: The PeeCee folks have a new terminal program called
MTE. What's special about it is that it gives *normal* 2400 baud modem owners
Class 5 MNP error-correction! A friend with a Supra 2400 running the registered
version of MTE gets about 4800 BPS throughput! 
What I was wondering is anybody considering making something similar for
the Amiga? If so, let me make a suggestion: Put your code all in the
Serial.Device where that *EVERY* terminal program can take advantage of 
it! Wouldn't it be great to boot up Jrcomm on a non-MNP modem, with a
SerialMNP.Device, and double your throughput!
Come on programmers, this shouldn't be hard? Anything that can be done on
a PC can be done on an Amiga! (only better :-) :-)
PS. BTW, I got the idea for doing such a project this way after hearing
that someone had made a IBM<->Amiga disk transfer program the way Dos
2 Dos should have done it in the first place. CrossDos is great, and I'll
probably be sending off for the real version soon...