>JC> Forget about characters per second, they were sent by Satan to confuse
 >JC> the righteous
 > 
 > How else to measure thruput?  After all, it's the CPS rate at the 
 > end of
 > the day (or session) that we're all interested in...
I keep a whole houseful of pet peeves.  One of them is that terminal programs 
usually measure throughput in characters per second, while modem 
manufacturers usually talk in bits per second.  The original messages have 
aged off my system, but I believe it is this difference in rating terminology 
that started this thread in the first place.  I made the above quoted comment 
because I believe the world would be a much better place if everyone did 
things as *I* think they should be done, other peoples' views are mere 
annoyances.  
 
I was amused by a wire service story that originated in the United States and 
was then sent out on the Canadian service.  Canada uses metric units.  This 
story was reporting a heat wave somewhere and correctly converted the day's 
temperature to 41C for the Canadian portion of the network.  The amusing part 
was a mere sentence later, "temperatures are expected to remain in the triple 
digits tomorrow".  It illustrates the confusion that occurs when different 
units of measurement are used for the same common phenomenon.
 >JC> Rockwell Protocol Interface  was also sent by
 >JC> Satan, but only because he likes to see people cry.
 > 
 > Now available in V34 flavour.  Burn baby, burn...
Tell me it ain't so!  The little devil is at it again?  Time to notify the 
Vatican, light a couple of candles and lay in a supply of garlic.  Groan...
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