Sujet : Re: not really cable modem cards / CMTS
De : gtaylor (at) *nospam* tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
Groupes : comp.mail.uucpDate : 23. Mar 2024, 05:46:01
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On 3/22/24 20:24, John Levine wrote:
Telebits were dialup modems that ran at 1200bps, which was pretty fast for the time, and spoofed the uucp "g" protocol to send large blocks of data faster than would otherwise be possible.
/me facepalms
I don't know why I thought about cable modem cards.
I've heard about the Telebits and how they interposed themselves in the line protocol.
I know multiple BBS SysOps that spoke of them fondly.
-- Grant. . . .