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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: To V42Bis or not to V42Bis??
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 22:33:02 +0100
- Message-ID: <4flnae$2n9@mips.pfalz.de>
- References: <4ej6rh$oa2@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <4eruq2$e2@hg.oro.net> <4etjse$a0g@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> <4f0jnq$dr7@hg.oro.net> <DM9p11.Gn6@freenet.carleton.ca> <eric-0502962347460001@sobt.accessorl.net> <9602090229.AA07775@pathcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960210194648.18732A-100000@eola.ao.net>
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- Butt-head <eric@eola.ao.net> writes:
-
- > What about the buffer in the modem? Most packets sit in the buffer
- > while waiting for the ones before them to be sent through the phone
- > line. I didn't know that the packet *could* be sent before the modem was
- > done compressing it. Why can't the modem decide whether or not to send
- > the packet compressed *while its in the buffer* before its time for the
- > packet to be sent?
-
- The modem doesn't compress packets. It compresses the incoming data
- stream. Packetization is performed later, on the output of the
- compressor. The compression engine itself inputs and outputs *streams*
- of data.
-
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