david, at 01:18 on Jan 29 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> I'm not sure that NetComms are even capable of reporting last call stats

db> Yes and no;  yes they are, but not as "neatly" or
"conveniently" as the 
db> USR.  Or at least, so it seems, anyway.

Can you post a dump of these stats if you get the chance?  I'm rather
curious to see what they look like.  No hurry though.  :)

BG> That explains a lot then.  Read Michael Crichton's
"Disclosure" if you
BG> get the chance.  Slags off at MS something terrible, he does.  :)

db> Thanks - just the pick-me-up I'm looking for.  ;-)

It's actually a damn good book, set in the computer industry, and mainly
about sexual discrimination (in reverse though), with corporate undertones.
 Would you believe that the main character's company's name is Digicom? 
And that they also manufacture modems?  ROFL!

db>> Only a 38,400bps serial port.

BG> Gawd, somebody else who likes crippling BTLZ compression...

db> I don't have buffered UARTs, so I need to keep the number of interrupts 
db> down. 

Understood.  And agreed.

db> When I finally get my new machine (BV, where the heck are those 
db> prices?!), I'll lock it at 115.2Kbps and forget it.  Happy?!  :-)

Not as happy as you'll be with a new machine, I'll wager...

db> BTW, I've switched to 57.6Kbps as an experiment - doesn't seem to provide 
db> much of an improvement for the stuff I do (then again, I haven't throttled 
db> it much either).

No dropped characters?  Interesting.  I hope Paul reads this too.  :)

Regards, Bill

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