Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: MNP Auto-Reliable + getty: happy accident or design?
Message-ID: <1989Apr28.192557.23991@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13575@steinmetz.ge.com> <260@jwt.UUCP> <565@aablue.UUCP> <135@tslanpar.UUCP> <827@nebulus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 19:25:57 GMT

In article <827@nebulus.UUCP> root@nebulus.UUCP (Dennis S. Breckenridge) writes:
>...the Microcom is a clear winner. I get consistant 1500 chrs/sec
>on a uucp transfer...

Is that compressed news, or plain ASCII text?

>TB+ locks the baud rate both in and out, the MC9624 locks incomming only
>and autobauds on outgoing.

Curious, my recollection is that you can do that with a TB+.  (We don't
lock either way on ours, so I'm not sure.)

>... I have had many lock ups on the TB+ (power it down and up to clear it)

Power problems?  Obsolete firmware?  We've had none on our pair.

>... I really don't know why the U.S. usenet sites selected TB+'s 
>other than price. There is no standard modem yet for usenet here in Canada
>and I would like to see Microcom get a fair shake. 

Sorry, you're too late, Canada has gone TB+ too, although apparently you
hadn't noticed.  Most of the major news-distribution sites in Toronto and
elsewhere use TB+s to move the data.
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