RICK COLLINS said to DOUG WILSON on 06-30-97:
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DW> Yes - for today's highs speed modems, you want the computer to
DW> communicate with comm port FASTER than the modem's rated speed.
DW> This is because modern high speed modems utilize data
DW> compression.
RC| Partly.  Error correction also requires a higher port speed than
  | connect speed for max throughput, because the data on the port
  | consists of 10 bits per byte and that between the modems is 8 bits
  | per byte.
8 bits/byte of original data plus some CRC overhead, actually.
Yeah, Rick, I know.  But I was responding to somebody complaining
that Telix didn't have a setting for a 14.4kbps modem.  I figured he
didn't need all the details, just the concept that the modem is
sending out a more compact data stream than it receives from the
computer.  This stuff is confusing enough on first hearing as it is.
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 * OLX 2.2 * Everything can be filed under "misc."
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