Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!quiche!quiche.cs.mcgill.ca From: tinyguy@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: modem Message-ID: <3975@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 17 Sep 90 13:18:31 GMT Sender: tinyguy@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca Distribution: na Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 16 >>The main practical advantage of MNP is that, because of the compression, >>transmission rates can be higher. If you can pack 100 bytes of text >>into 50 bytes of binary gibberish, and then unpack them at the other >>end, then your 1200 bps modem will seem to run at 2400 bps. >> So, how does it effect the display speed on the screen? Do you actually get 100% improvement? If that's the case, I think its worth it. ************************************************************************* * Yeo-Hoon Bae * Amiga /// * * tinyguy@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca * 2000 /// * * tinyguy@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca * \\\/// * * Amiga2000 + 3MB + 48MB HD + KX-P1124 + DiamondScan * \XX/ * *************************************************************************