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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Subject: Re: Connecting Modems to DEC Stations
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.020950.10977@decuac.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
- References: <1992Aug19.185928.25039@panix.com> <1992Aug20.043558.11448@decuac.dec.com> <1992Aug20.074710.21943@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:09:50 GMT
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- tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
-
- >Yes, it gets the job done. But have you seen Ian's figures comparing CPU time
- >for his UUCP (Taylor) and the Ultrix UUCP? Aside from the oddity of the spool
- >structure and some other age-related deficiencies (protocols, packet sizes and
- >windows, &c) Ultrix UUCP is, featurewise, OK. But my personal machine is a
- >pmax, a 2100 in fact, and I guess it just gives me a different perspective on
- >what goes and what doesn't go so far as CPU drain.
-
- With respect to UUCP for ULTRIX, I'm much more concerned about the
- miserable serial ports on the pmax, than the performance of UUCP. ;) I
- haven't seen Ian's figures, and I confess I've been remiss in not building
- a version of UUCP with profiling to see if it could be improved upon. It
- is just possible that UUCP is starting to become less or an important
- protocol than it used to be - I'd rather see our engineering efforts go
- towards having a quality PPP implementation and good serial ports on
- the box, thankyouverymuch. ;)
-
- mjr.
-