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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM ([Karl Denninger])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Major Modem Woe: THE 9600B modem no good for interactive use
Message-ID: <[1861.5]karl@ddsw1.comp.ibmpc;1>
Date: 24 Feb 89 16:00:06 GMT
References: <7298@june.cs.washington.edu>
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>Response 4 of 4 (1861) by davidsen at steinmetz on Fri 24 Feb 89 5:33
>[William E. Davidsen Jr]
>
>In article <1149@ns.UUCP> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
>
>| so I can't complain.  The HST and the Telebit seem to be the current market
>| leaders; for usenet you want telebit, for fidonet you want hst.  For other
>| things you want to be sure you know what they support before you buy :-).
>
>  I'm told that the HST comes in a model (HST/ix??) which does uucico
>'g' protocol spoofing, and that it's about as fast as the telebit. Could
>anyone comment on this?

Sure -- HST/ix is a software AND hardare product.  Yes, it's nice -- IFF you 
have another HST/ix set to talk to on the other end.

We were a beta site for the software -- the software _says_ it will work 
with the Telebits too.  The appearance is a lot like Zmodem with some 
compression layered on top of HDB UUCP; the major difference is that there 
is a cutesy menu interface to the entire package.

The biggest problem you'll have is that there aren't many HST/ix kits out 
there.... and since it's non-'g' protocol as far as I can tell you're out of 
luck if the other end doesn't support what you're doing. 

Without help the HSTs do TERRIBLY on uucp calls, as the back-channel is not 
big enough to pass the "acks" without turning around the line.

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