Yo! Joe:
Saturday June 07 1997 14:37, Joe Nicholson wrote to Bill Cheek:
 BC>> The sucker hasn't changed in 15 years except to get bigger and and
 BC>> bigger. .... Now it's getting smaller and smaller.............
 JN>  While every other net (400+) that I know of can use 14000, 28800
 JN>  and 34000 in the modem field, Fido is still tied down to 9600.
And ain't that plumb silly?  It sure would be nice to choose among nodes, 
based on speed.  You kind of can.....with the v.34 and v.FC fields, but for 
nodes that don't have v.34/v.FC, you sure can't tell the difference betwixt 
9600-bps and 14400-bps capabilities.
Now even with v.34, it's the same way.....you can't tell 28.8-kbps from 33.6.
Just between you and me, the nodelist needs a good rework and furthermore, it 
needs to be maintained on the server; not at the node level.  Not that I 
care, because my Pentiums can process the nodelist in seconds, but on my old 
XT, it used to take HOURS!!!!  That's ridiculous!
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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