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Subject: Re: Datagram sizes
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Rex,

the noise argument, while true in some absolute sense, has some interesting
new twists owing to new transmission media and methods. Fiber and coax LANs
are quite low in noise and can support very large packets while achieving
quite satisfactory error rates. Forward error correction schemes are more
feasible now than ever owing to higher speed and larger memory VLSI chips.

As a result, the absolute packet asize at which noise becomes a problem is
considerably larger, FOR SOME NETWORKS, than used to be the case.

Vint