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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Future of USENET
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.011020.28444@looking.on.ca>
Date: 29 Jun 91 01:10:20 GMT
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For a medium like USENET there is no need for a fast TWO-way wire into your
home.   After all, your cable TV wire is getting the equivalent of 50 trillion
bytes a day.   Current ethernet does 108 gigabytes, FDDI rates ten times as
much.

USENET is broadcast and the technology is easily in place for quite a lot.
In fact, a single gigabit channel could easily handle the entire typing output
of the human race.   Of course, we want to send sound and pictures so the output
level increases.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473