Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: T1000
Message-ID: <DL=ASHH@xds13.ferranti.com>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
References: <585@fudd.dataco.UUCP> <35@mich-ns.Michigan.COM> <1991May01.024430.17081@osh3.OSHA.GOV>
Date: Wed, 1 May 91 15:37:17 GMT

In article <1991May01.024430.17081@osh3.OSHA.GOV>, chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) writes:
> Well, while reading this news I had to wait for the screen to fill. 
> This is not a user interface problem.  There was just a screen full of
> data (your message) to display.  What can a program do about that?

2400 baud is faster than I can read, and probably faster than you can read
too unless you're some kind of prodigy. If the user interface does not clear
the screen, but instead scrolls text on from the bottom, then you will
find occasional pauses quite necessary at any speed over about 300 baud.

> As for budget and paying rent, that's another good reason not to buy a
> 2400 bps modem.

At $75 per, it's 1/10th the cost of a 9600 baud modem and within the range
of disposable income for a lot of people. See the parallel discussion in
comp.misc about throwing out old terminals.

For that matter I make quite a bit, but there is no way I could justify
a 9600 baud modem for interactive use.

> Where "the guy at the other end not having one" is concerned, that's a
> good reason to stick with the V.32 and V.42 (bis) modems (I know,
> Telebits have this).

That depends on whether the guy at the other end is a BBS or a UNIX box. For
UNIX systems, Telebits *are* everywhere.

> Are you actually advocating the purchase of a 2400 bps?

For what? Under what circumstances? For most cases where you're doing
interactive stuff (and not via PC-remote or PPP, OK?) I would say yes.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
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