honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman) (05/20/85)
how do you figure that it's "gross" for uucp to expect an 8-bit data path? what can we say about networking hardware that is incapable of providing transparent connections? peter
schnable@ihuxo.UUCP (Andrew T. Schnable) (05/21/85)
> how do you figure that it's "gross" for uucp to expect an 8-bit data > path? what can we say about networking hardware that is incapable of > providing transparent connections? > peter that's life. It's easier to accomidate imperfection than to change the world. andy ihbee!schnable
robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) (05/24/85)
> how do you figure that it's "gross" for uucp to expect an 8-bit data > path? what can we say about networking hardware that is incapable of > providing transparent connections? > peter The U/B network is perfectly capable of providing transparent conditions. The problem lies in the fact that we want to operate the lines at at least 9600 baud (preferably 19200) and the 3B2 can't handle that without some type of flow control. robert -- Robert Viduya Georgia Institute of Technology ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!robert ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!robert