Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: T1000 Message-ID: <1991May2.134341.11341@robobar.co.uk> Date: 2 May 91 13:43:41 GMT References: <35@mich-ns.Michigan.COM> <1991May01.024430.17081@osh3.OSHA.GOV> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 18 peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: > 2400 baud is faster than I can read, and probably faster than you can read > too unless you're some kind of prodigy. I disagree. Humans can read well in excess of V.32bis speeds -- what do you think speed reading is? The problem is that if the text is being displayed at 2400 or below, it makes it very difficult to make use of speed reading techniques, which require looking at blocks of text, rather than reading one word at a time. If the text is trickling through at 2400 or below, the text blocks are continually changing in shape, so most brains will switch from block mode to serial mode reading, which is *much* slower. Roll on ethernet speed dialups, I say :-) -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)