Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnews!mjs
From: mjs@cbnews.att.com (martin.j.shannon)
Subject: Re: USRobotics Courier HST/ix?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 17:27:41 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.172741.13979@cbnews.att.com>
Summary: Not just PEP!
References: <540.2718D7BC@zswamp.fidonet.org> <1990Oct15.120645.7065@nstar.uucp>
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In article <1990Oct15.120645.7065@nstar.uucp>, larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes, in part:
> 
> The PEP is still the best modem for UUCP.
> 

And I contend that may be true if you use 'g' protocol, but if you (and
your neighbor) can use 'e' protocol, any of the current (small) flock
of 14400 b/s modems that support full error correction and flow control
should perform similarly.  Further, 'e' protocol *should* (I can't say
for sure -- I don't have source available) use less CPU in the uucico
process (no packet assembly/disassembly).

Yes, Telebit has a very good product, but Telebit is *does* have
competition.  Please be very careful with blanket statements like the
above from Larry.

(Sorry, Larry, your article just happened to be at the wrong place at
the wrong time.  You aren't the only one who does it -- you're just the
one who broke *this* camel's back!)
-- 
Marty Shannon; AT&T Bell Labs; Liberty Corner, NJ, USA
(Affiliation is given for identification only:
I don't speak for them; they don't speak for me.)