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- From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
- Subject: Re: A500 top serial speed
- References: <1993Jan22.180011.11852@oclc.org>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:05:30 GMT
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- Eugene T. Levine (levine@oclc.org) wrote:
- : king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist) writes:
- : : scooper@cse.ucsc.edu (Scott Cooper) publicly declared:
- : : > Is there any truth to the story that the poor, slow A500 can
- : : >only handle so much modem speed? If I buy a .v32bis modem am I
- : : >excercising overkill?
- Nope, mine handles it just fine...
-
- : What kind of speeds can I hope for doing a direct connect to my PC. I use
- : zmodem on both ends and have a hd on the pc but only floppies on the amiga.
- : The best I've been able to do is about 1350cps. I set up both ends for
- : 19.2bps.
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- Try hooking them up and running twincom on both ends... Start it at 115200
- baud... You'll end up with about 16500 cps....
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- zarthac@cs1 \ / Macs are more bullet proof, because the /
- zarthac@camelot >.bradley.edu / authors have the leeway to assume total /AMIGA
- zarthac@buhub / / user idiocy. - Charles C. Bundy IV / ///
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- And I've seen Windows CRASH, too... nothing is bulletproof, you just /\\\///
- need a big enough bullet. - Frank R. Dana, Jr. / \XX/
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- This newsgroup is like a big cuddly never ending witch hunt. The / For the
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- we have soft cushy pillows. - Ian Kennedy (c.s.a.a) / mind.
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- There is also the fact that one generally wants to MAKE MONEY off products one
- develops, not give them away to twerpy prepubescent drips who wouldn't pay for
- software if it came out of the monitor and blew them. - Marc Wandschneider
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