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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: help wrt UUCP between 3B1 OBM and TB
Message-ID: <43.282CCC09@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 11 May 91 13:56:47 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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In a letter to All, Greg Andrews (gandrews@netcom.COM ) wrote:

GW>   Hmmm, delete the stop bit every 8th character and you have a 1.3% 
GW>throughput improvement... hardly seems worth the hassle.

 >It wasn't included for the purpose of pushing the link to 
 >higher speeds.

   I understood that the modems transmitted between them at 1200 bps on the 
nose, and to their host computers at 1219 bps.  I s'pose it makes sense.

   Thanks.
 

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