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- From: stephen@bokonon.ussinc.com (Stephen M. Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Is UUCP is critical feature for Unix machine?
- Organization: United System Solutions Inc.
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 02:14:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <DL94wH.231@bokonon.ussinc.com>
- References: <4chrn4$nm2@usenety1.news.prodigy.com> <4ckopg$6iv@mips.pfalz.de> <4d10p3$dsm@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In article <4d10p3$dsm@usenety1.news.prodigy.com> davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- $In article <4ckopg$6iv@mips.pfalz.de>,
- $Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.pfalz.de> wrote:
- $| davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- $
- $| > For V.32bis and V.34 you will get about the same performance using the
- $| > 't' or 'e' protocols.
- $|
- $| You don't want to use 't' or 'e' over serial ports. They don't even have
- $| error *detection*, much less error correction.
- $
- $This is true, but the chances of an error in the serial port is
- $pretty minimal, while the link between modems is error checked.
-
- It depends, to a large extent, on the hardware. If you can
- guarantee that you'll never lose a character on links between the
- modems and their respective serial ports, great. I'm not quite that
- trusting in general.
-
- In the special case of a standard PC serial port, even with a
- 16550, I get a little worried in expecting it to be perfectly
- loss-free. I've seen some (albeit somewhat underpowered - I'm
- talking 386/40) systems which, even with a 16550 and a 16550-aware
- OS (Xenix 2.3.4), would lose data at 38.4 kbps.
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- stephen@bokonon.ussinc.com ...!{xrtll,gts.org}!bokonon!stephen
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- Stephen M. Dunn, CNE, ACE, Sr. Systems Analyst, United System Solutions Inc.
- 104 Carnforth Road, Toronto, ON, Canada M4A 2K7 (416) 750-7946 x251
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