9 Mar
2017
9 Mar
'17
5:39 a.m.
I've still got my Worldblazer, and a Trailblazer that I found in a
storage closet at a defense contractor I was consulting for back in the
mid 90's.
I'm seriously thinking of getting my SVR4.2 system back up and running
and seeing if I can get Taylor UUCP to function again.
Of course, I didn't make the UUCP maps until the early 90's... but still :)
On 3/8/2017 6:18 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017, at 15:07, Arthur Krewat wrote:
This is one of the reasons Telebit did the whole
UUCP "g" acceleration
in the Trailblazer/Worldblazer modems.
The turn-around time for the small packets being acknowledged was so bad
over normal modems that it was painful.
So Telebit made the modem do the acknowledgements (IIRC), stream the
data over the phone line, and the receiving end would "play along" on
the acknowledgements.
It was very effective for news especially.
On 3/8/2017 5:03 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> During that "modem" time, I started with a 2400 baud modem and soon
> upgraded
> to a US-Robotics modem. It turned out that UUCP had several issues and was not
> very effective with high speed modems.
>
> ...SNIP...
> Jörg
>
I need to pull my Telebits out now, don't I? ;)