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From: casey@admin.cognet.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayes 9600 sysop offer - a sour deal.
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Date: 12 Oct 88 20:13:40 GMT
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| From: jamesd@percival.UUCP (James Deibele)
|  
| The real problem is what do you do with 9600 bps both ways?  File
| transfers, the most common use of BBS modems, tends to be almost
| exclusively a one-way affair.  Many people can't keep up with 2400 bps
| text, they're not going to be able to read 9600 bps text.  Videotext
| applications, such as AppleLink or Prodigy, don't need the fast baud rate
| in both directions ...

  There are a *LOT* of applications that need as much bandwidth as you
can muster in *BOTH* directions.  The Austrailian equivalent to UUCP for
one (ACS?) which transfers in both directions simultaneously; running a
multiplexed communication channel across a dial up link is another (ex:
SLIP).

  Don't let a low quality communication standard cloud your view.  UUCP
is nice because almost everyone talks it these days, but it's not that
good.  Until new modems came along that mirrored UUCP's half duplex
nature, it was pathetic.  The Austrailian communications standard was/is
much better.

Casey