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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: Higher speed LANs ?
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Date: Sat, 27-Jun-87 22:21:50 EDT
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> I think you are wrong to indicate that the sole reason for the slow
> effective throughputs is protocols...

Well, I should have elaborated that a little.  The reason for low
throughputs (compared to the hardware) is the presence of protocols
between hardware and user.  The biggest problem with protocols on most
current systems is that they are implemented inefficiently.  One can
definitely do better.  Eventually the protocol designs do impose limits
(or rather, obstacles that are increasingly hard to overcome), although
few existing implementations suffer from this yet.
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Mars must wait -- we have un-         Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
finished business on the Moon.     {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry