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- From: crs0794@inforamp.net (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Why 33600?
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 04:51:20 GMT
- Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
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- I don't normally enjoy being rude, but never before in this forum have I seen
- so much falsehood and invention disguised as wisdom by a self-appointed expert
- whose only skill is to lead astray those who are not truly experts... yet.
-
- In a previous post, Ed said that increasing analog rates were just hype... he
- ignores the FACT that we're sending larger and larger files, many of the
- precompressed, and we don't want to wait longer and longer for them... and the
- only answer is a higher raw data rate. However, Ed goes on with his ouragous
- invention:
-
- In article <4krp3c$gn8@hg.oro.net>, estarry@oro.net (Ed Starry) wrote:
- > Simply put, 'A cached serial port is a serial port that's cached!' An
-
- You're full of it... or you don't know what a cache is.
-
- >internal modem IS cached. An external modem ISN'T, unless it's using a
-
- That's an incredible load of crap.
-
- >cached serial port card (Hayes ESP, et al). I'm referring to the 1,024 byte,
- >or higher, DRAM I/O Buffers that are tied together with a Caching Controller
- >and straddle the UART. This caching is "mandatory" for on the fly
- >compressing of zip/gif files.
-
- And how does this large buffer qualify as a cache? What intelligence prevents
- the re-sending of redundant data? Or would you describe any large FIFO as a
- cache?
-
- >PS: The colored sheet signature line is a test of logic, did you pass?
-
- Some test, borrowed from pre-school. Did _you_ find it challenging?
-
- > All my sheets are white except my colored ones!
-
- --
- Geoffrey Welsh, Developer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
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