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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!udel!gvls1!faatcrl!jprad
- From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: JR-Comm and PAL video mode
- Message-ID: <3427@faatcrl.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 23:38:32 GMT
- References: <L7yJoB2w165w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us>
- Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ
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- crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Travis Prebble) writes:
-
- >I need an answer to something that has been puzzling me for a few weeks
- >now. When downloading via Zmodem with JR-Comm 1.02a on a 2400 baud
- >modem, I can boost my characters per second from 234 up to 278 by
- >switching to PAL mode! At first, I thought it might just be an error in
- >a video based timer, but I actually sat down with a stopwatch and timed a
- >download, once in NTSC and once in PAL. PAL was faster!!
-
- You're not boosting your cps, if you used a stopwatch to verify the timing
- you'd know this already.
-
- When you put an NTSC machine in PAL mode you have a system that thinks it's
- clock tick is 50Hz when it is actually 60Hz.
-
- Of course, a little math verifies this as well.
-
- 60/50 = 1.2
- 234 * 1.2 = 280
-
- -jack-
-