chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (06/07/88)
In article <6854@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> lim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Kian-Tat Lim) writes: >They ran all the modems at 9600 as that was the maximum rated I/O speed for >some of them. That is a terrible reason. By that reasoning, they should have run them at 300 bps, because there are some modems with 300 bps as their top speed. If you buy a modem that can run >9600 bps, you will probably run it >9600 bps. Now, that most communications programs cannot keep up at 9600, much less 19200, bps *is* a valid reason ... but then they should have gone with the lowest common denominator, which is probably around 4800 bps (although I have seen systems that struggled with *that* rate). What they *really* should have done, though, was to run each at all supported speeds, and listed each *at each speed*. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris