Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site olgba.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!ist!olgb1!olgba!olmp From: olmp@olgba.UUCP (Mike Pellatt) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: Re: 68000 Laptop portables with networking Message-ID: <171@olgba.UUCP> Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 07:50:03 EDT Article-I.D.: olgba.171 Posted: Sat Sep 14 07:50:03 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 00:06:27 EDT References: <876@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1633@watdcsu.UUCP> <47@intelca.UUCP> Organization: British Olivetti Ltd.,AT&T Computer Division. Lines: 20 Xpath: icdoc ivax > If you want to take it that far.......How about a modem somehow attached > to the portable part of a cordless phone, or maybe one of these "cellular > telephone systems" that they are advertising these days. Does anyone know > whether the signal quality would be high enough for reasonable transfer > rates with a reasonable error rate? > > > Rick Sellens I know for a fact that this is being implemented on the U.K. cellular radio systems by both Racal-Vodafone and Cellnet (the B.T. system). The rumours in the computing press said that each system was proposing different error-correction standards. Anyone know anything more about this ???? -- Mike Pellatt, Software Support, AT&T Computer Division, British Olivetti Ltd., Wellington House, 154-160 Upper Richmond Road, LONDON, SW15 2FN. Tel: (+44) 1 789 6699 Telefax: (+44) 1 874 3014 Telex:27258 Uucp : {ihnp4!cuuxb | mcvax!ukc!uel | olhqma }!olgb1!olmp Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com