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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 async driver, part 5/5
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.124025.7091@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 12:40:25 GMT
- References: <F5557UC@geminix.in-berlin.de> <102.26574@incc.com> <1448@frackit.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <1448@frackit.UUCP>, dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
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- | This is one of those cases where most of us will call it an ok thing to
- | do. If you needed a FAS driver I think you would agree. Considering the
- | tone of your message you don't need one and could care less. Sorry. It
- | doesn't happen every day.
-
- Actually if someone is getting a long distance feed they better be
- using FAS, because the time saved in reducing retransmissions will
- easily pay for the effort to install. And of course the cost of a fast
- modem will drop out in a short time if the feed is expensive.
-
- I saw some figures on the savings from going from PEP of V.32bis to
- superPEP based on US rates, and it looked like the payback was under a
- year for just mail and a few groups.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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