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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Subject: Re: PacerTerm announcement
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In article <27@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Since this program supports the CTB, it can leave this job to the OS. However,
>you will, of course, need multiple modems! There is a physical limit stating
>you cannot open two different channels on the same line

Balderdash.  You put a (software) multiplexor on the remote end, and sit
a de-mux module between the connection tool and multiple terminal tools.

Of course, this does require you to run special software (the mux) on the
host.  This means that most commercial vendors won't touch it with a
ten foot pole, no matter how useful it might be.

Thank ingenuity for freeware and shareware authors, who've had products like
this (albeit not CTB) for many years.

--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner