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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
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- Subject: Re: Why 33600?
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 12:30:24 +0100
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- estarry@oro.net (Ed Starry) writes:
-
- >PS: If you don't know what a cached serial port is and how they work don't
- >condemn them. DTE is the measure of data flow and 115,200 is 115,200 whether
- >it be from a 14.4 or a 28.8!!!
-
- But surely very little data can be compressed 10-fold, whatever your method.
- You know, information theory, etc.
-
- Most of the data I transfer is already compressed,
- so in fact it cannot be compressed further.
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