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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.dcom.modems,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Major Modem Woe: THE 9600B modem no good for interactive use
Message-ID: <7939@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 89 14:13:08 GMT
References: <7298@june.cs.washington.edu> <[1861.5]karl@ddsw1.comp.ibmpc;1> <5138@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <60827@pyramid.pyramid.com> <13275@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
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In article <13275@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <60827@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>
>| Several people have done this in their own UUCP's. Just don't call your new
>| protocol 'g', or you'll break all the existing implementations. The better
>| solution for modems like the HST is a streaming protocol, like 'f' but more
>| robust and less overhead. I keep toying with this idea, as does Rick Adams,
>| but we never get around to an implementation.
>
>  One existing protocol which does very well at this is zmodem. Rather
>than invent a new protocol, perhaps this could be added. It was designed
>to run of long delay networks, and the back traffic is minimal.
>
>  Maybe someone could suggest that UNIX international push on AT&T a
>little and see if a new *standard* protocol could be added to HDB.

Unfortunately for this line of thought, the impression is that the features 
being added to SysV are driven by the standards organizations (IEEE POSIX, 
ANSI C, etc.) and the existing Unix applications market (BSD networking, 
XENIX binary compatibility for Intel CPU's).  The fact that zmodem is a up 
and coming protocol in the DOS world probably would make no difference to them,
since that's not where their interests lie.


						Bob Halloran
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