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From: rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Serial.Device idea?
Summary: blah
Keywords: Serial, MNP
Message-ID: <5186@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 27 Aug 89 11:27:38 GMT
References: <1326@mcrware.UUCP> <11695@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <2190@netcom.UUCP> <800@medsys.UUCP>
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In article <800@medsys.UUCP> wendell@medsys.UUCP (bbs amiga user) writes:
>
>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

Class 5 compression is nice on ASCII files, but it actually
*SLOWS DOWN* when transferring compressed or binary files...

Slows down as in slower than without it!

just my $.02... $.17 with inflation.

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