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Subject: Re: support for 16650
In-Reply-To: <199609260109.WAA26135@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis at "Sep 25, 96 10:09:09 pm"
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According to Joao Carlos Mendes Luis:
> #define quoting(Gary Kline)
> // 	I have heard rumblings--at least 3rd- or 4th-hand--
> // 	that within a year the POTS modems will be screaming along
> // 	at 57Kbps or something.   Anybody else hear these rumors?
> 
> If Nyquist's Theorem is wrong...   :)
> 
> But, who knows.  This same theorem says 28.8Kbps is also impossible,
> with a digital signaling rate of 56Khz...
> 
> Maybe it's possible between local phones, in the same trunk, where there's
> no digital path along.
> 

	I remember being happy at 300baud between the co-op and
	the campus....

	I'm guessing that 38.4 is likely.  56Kpbs would be like
	having an ISDN line.  Interesting times, huh?

	gary
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