On Feb 08, 1996 at 07:31, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

 BG> It's been quite a while since I called, so perhaps things have improved
 BG> since I last tried, but at the time, I was less than impressed with IBM's
 BG> demo of how OS/2 handles comms...

I've actually seen the IBM bboard machine - or rather, I saw it when it was
on Kent Street and Jim was running it (ie., right back at the start).  A
couple of PS/2 machines, an AS/400 (?) across the room, Token Ring network,
a stack of modems, but one machine in the middle doing "all the
stuff".  It was (and probably remains) underconfigured and terribly
overburdened (by the LAN stuff, not the modem stuff).

I checked the other day, and they're apparently still using OS/2 2.1.

 BG> Probably.  For example, Russell gets solid 33600/33600 connects with
 BG> David, yet to me, he connects at 26400 most times.  Go figure.

I just had someone with a Banksia MyFast modem call Paul's USR, and they
got 24,000bps (again, they get 28.8Kbps elsewhere, incl. to M34Fs run by
the ISP they use).  As usual, everything is up for grabs.

Cheers..

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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