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- From: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: PPP Reg Flies!!
- Date: 18 Apr 96 00:04:14 +0100
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Message-ID: <908.6682T4T700@stud.cs.uit.no>
- References: <4ki6of$5aq@news.aloha.com> <666.6675T804T1889@woodtech.com>
- <605.6676T1434T1184@stud.cs.uit.no> <Dpxvwn.AEE@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
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- In article <Dpxvwn.AEE@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>, bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au
- (Bernd Felsche) wrote:
-
- >>I find it strange that people appreciate crippled shareware more than
- >>uncrippled shareware...but maybe that's just me...
-
- >I wouldn't call it crippled when it's unregistered. Still entirely
- >useable. With a 28.8 modem, you get close to 80% throughput ... well
- >over 2000 bytes/second.
-
- >Unless I'm much mistaken, the registration provides you with
- >_additional_ features; like header compression which gives a bit
- >performance boost on small packets.
-
- Holger has written the code for header compression. The unregistered version
- doesn't use it. Holger has written code for PAP. The unregistered version
- doesn't use it/in later versions it works for a few minutes.
-
- It is crippled.
-
- T r o e l s W a l s t e d H a n s e n
- troels@stud.cs.uit.no - http://www.cs.uit.no/~troels
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