Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Where is modem progress?
Message-ID: <1989May28.030555.10293@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <78700004@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <8196@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <182@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28 May 89 03:05:55 GMT

In article <182@sopwith.UUCP> snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
>Sort of amusing remembering my EE communications prof stating that 1200 baud
>was the absolute maximum one could get over a phone line.  *grin*

All the more so when you consider that Telebit is rumored to be able to do
28 kbps with a souped-up internal version of PEP.  Not bad for lines that
are sampled at 8 kHz at (as far as the modem is concerned) random times!
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