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From: cs2531bn@charon.unm.edu (Ernie Longmire)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Quote from Feb 88 Computer Shopper
Message-ID: <2237@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 88 07:44:50 GMT
Reply-To: cs2531bn@unmc.UUCP (Ernie Longmire)
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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Summary: Much ado about a misunderstanding

> Having just finished the installation of my Trailblazer, I was
> surprised to see the following in an article by Ted Drude in the
> latest Computer Shopper:
>
>      "And remember, the telecommunication "experts" are sure that 9600
>      baud is the fastest speed which will ever be possible over
>      dial-up phone lines."  -- Computer Shopper, February 1988, p76.
>
> The author must not read this newsgroup.  He must be spending all his
> time in rec.humor.  Is that where he did his research?
>
> Jack Bonn, <> Software Labs, Ltd, Box 451, Easton CT  06612

I would bet he researches better than you do . . . if you'd read the article
more carefully, you would have realized that the author was making *fun* of
the so-called "experts" who used to insist that dial-up modems could never,
ever be designed to communicate faster than at 300 baud and that you'd need
leased lines to "maybe -- just maybe" run at 1200-2400 baud...and who now
insist that 9600 is the upper limit.

Ernie Longmire (ncoast!lazlo)         Now available at cs2531bn@charon.unm.edu
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