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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Connecting the NeXT box to phone lines -- Where is my RJ11??
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Date: 18 Oct 88 14:38:00 GMT
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In article <2583@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>The thing I have against all this "9600 baud modem emulator" stuff,
>[... my system's already busy with all the real work ...]
>Into this environment, you're going to throw in a full Telebits PEP
>emulation???  I don't think so.

I suspect that the 68030/68882 has enough juice to handle a PEP thread
without sweating too hard, if you really want it to.  Someone may be
clever enough to put PEP on the DSP someday, but 9600 V.32 is already
better than anything I've got.  And it all runs on the chip, not
bothering my uucico/uuxqt/rnews/compress/rnews/whatever (which will
run more efficiently in Mach's IPC environment to begin with).

Again, in a University environment, many of these cubes will be NNTP
clients and won't do the drudgery of unbatching the news.  Give that
onerous task to the grant 3B2/400s that ATT was throwing away a couple
of years ago (like osu-cis) or the spare VAX that everyone has lying
about.  For that matter, these cubes probably won't have many modem
connections, except maybe to run SLIP from my study at home to my
office on campus :-)

If the DSP is busy being a modem, you may not get the full 44.1Mhz (?)
sampling on your real-time harpsichord synthesis.  That's probably the
biggest reason I'd go buy a Trailblazer :-)
-=-
Zippy sez,								--Bob
It's OKAY --- I'm an INTELLECTUAL, too.