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From: AAD@GOLD.SCRIBE.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: phone and decservers
Message-ID: <8802210603.AA29392@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 88 06:15:05 GMT
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I was once told that the lat servers send an ethernet packet for every
character, and that thus the overhead is ~256 to 1. (The same person
said that the minimun size for an enet packet is something like 256 bytes)