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From: Paul_L_Schauble@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: BYTE benchmark Jokes (was: High speed modems)
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Date: 18 Jun 88 06:29:07 GMT
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Steve Samuel, in a recent posting, took Byte Magazine to task for using
"unrealistic" random data in their recent modem review. Granted, this is
primarily a Unix newsgroup, so perhaps I have the wrong perspective. In
my usual universe, most files are compressed by arc, pkarc, or compress
before being transmitted. I suspect that random data is a very good match
for a compressed file. Without returning any of Steve's snide comments, this
seems like a good test to me.

I am a bit disappointed that they didn't also test text.

    Paul