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From: merrill@bucasb.bu.edu (John &)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Connecting the NeXT box to phone lines -- Where is my RJ11??
Message-ID: <593186282.2780@bucasb.bu.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 88 13:58:02 GMT
References: <10639@reed.UUCP> <24824@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2583@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: merrill@bucasb.bu.edu (John &)
Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems
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In-reply-to: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan)

In article <2583@sultra.UUCP>, dtynan@sultra (Der Tynan) writes:
>In article <24824@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>> 
>> The 9600bps modem was built into the early revs of the board, but was
>> later moved outside the case in a little box that just hangs there
>> like an appendage.  [...]
>> 
>
>The thing I have against all this "9600 baud modem emulator" stuff, is if you
>try to do any "real" work with the system, besides just a terminal emulator,
>you'll probably get bogged down real quick.  I mean, can you imagine using
>such an arrangement as a newsfeed?  

Sure.  Remember that the proposed modem emulator runs *on the DSP
chip*---not on the main CPU.  (I agree that you couldn't run such a
system on the main CPU and handle a full news-feed simultaneously.)
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