Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!fernwood!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: T1000 Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 15:08:43 GMT References: <35@mich-ns.Michigan.COM> <1991May01.024430.17081@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <1991May2.134341.11341@robobar.co.uk> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 20 In article <1991May2.134341.11341@robobar.co.uk>, ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes: > 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? A trick for skimming material, making use of redundancy in English. OK, if you're a speed-reader a 9600 baud modem might be useful. But how many people like that are there? And given that we're talking about computer text in the first place, perhaps some preprocessing could remove some of that redundancy? I know there are programs that remove noise words simplify spllng rmvng vwls ft mr txt scrn. Prhps cld b spd rdng 90s. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"