From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 17:09:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA18566 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:09:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM ([198.138.38.206]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA18555 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA24027; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 20:08:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 20:08:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: Michael Smith cc: wes@intele.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: delays in ppp solved In-Reply-To: <199601180521.PAA05556@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Er. Most 'cheap' modems have 8-bit microcontrollers (Z180/8051) in them. > I've been told of cases where, to obtain the desired throughput, vendors > have skimped on the compression (the hard side of the pair) so that > the processor could keep up. owwwww....never seen one that cheap. even the cheapest 14.4 $99 modem had a 16bit micro. but dropped carrier everytime someone sneezed ;) Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG