Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 9600 baud modems
Message-ID: <1988Jul23.203605.20716@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Sat, 23 Jul 88 20:36:05 GMT

> 	This is how **some** 9600 baud modems work. Real 9600 baud
> modems work by quadrature amplitude modulation...

Real 14000 baud modems, mind you, work by the multi-carrier approach
originally described.  ("Real" meaning "Telebit Trailblazer", of course.)
Why buy 9600-baud QAM when you can have 14000-baud PEP? :-)
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