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From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: A 9600 baud modem for $169!!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.203055.23427@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 20:30:55 GMT
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In article <9154@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> s142075@fred.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers) writes:
>full-duplex 9600 bps is just about the dumbest thing I ever heard of.
>Anyone who NEEDS to send AND receive at full speed (as opposed to
>1 9600 bps and 1 450 bps channel) please respond. I'd be glad to hear
>what all that extra technology is being used for.

Sure.  We're using our full-duplex 19.2kbaud modem for our house's
lifeline to the internet.  While I'm telnetted in to send this
message, another user could be telnetted out to do a compile on one of
the schools computers, and two other users could have FTP sessions
going, in both directions.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu