From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 11:13:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201024091345.GA11449@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2jwm26j.fsf@linux-m68k.org>
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 24 2020, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>
> > 19200 sounds as if your terminal and Emacs could figure out what they
> > wanted.
>
> 19200 is the fake value that is used by the graphical frames on X.
19200 was a very popular speed back then, when 9200 was too slow,
the cables became shorter and "RS232" was tweaked and hacked to
fit the PC landscape (short cables, lower voltage swing and things).
Then modems became faster, because of more sophisticated modulation
schemes and the last mile becoming shorter and shorter [1].
Ah, good ol' times :)
Cheers
[1] Miles don't become shorter. But as most customers live in
densely populated areas, last mile providers discovered that
the others "just don't exist" unless the government shells
out money for them. Which is used for many other and Ponzi
schemes...
- t
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 21:11 Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s? Stefan Kangas
2020-10-23 3:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 10:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-23 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 20:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 20:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-24 8:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-24 8:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-24 9:13 ` tomas [this message]
2020-10-23 9:02 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-23 10:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2020-10-26 13:01 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
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