Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!bellcore!clyde!watmath!isishq!f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG!izot From: izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Geoffrey Welsh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: ZMODEM using REUs Message-ID: <2289.245A8619@isishq.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 29 Apr 89 06:14:44 GMT Sender: ufgate@isishq.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.25) Organization: FidoNet node 1:221/171 - Izot's Swamp, Kitchener ON Lines: 17 > From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) > Message-ID: <514@lakart.UUCP> > If you read the ZMODEM documentation, overlapping disk access and serial > I/O is not required for ZMODEM, it just makes it go faster. Irrelevant. Streaming (which requires simultaneous modem & disk I/O) is ZMODEM's performance edge. Without it, ZMODEM offers no performance advantage over YMODEM. -- Geoffrey Welsh - via FidoNet node 1:221/162 UUCP: ...!watmath!isishq!171!izot Internet: izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG