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Re: Configuring Waffle for higher throughput with Boca 14.4

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From: Christian Henry
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 04:28
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In article <27i6it$mk2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen
C. Trier) writes:

>>One of the major differences between these protocols is that the standard 'g'
>>protocol has a maximum block size of 64 bytes, and it must _wait_ for the
>>acknowledgement after each block is sent
>
>This is incorrect.  UUCP g protocol is windowed.  Windowed protocols
>have the robustness of ping-pong protocols but don't waste as much time
>because they can transmit data while waiting for an ack.

I guess it must just be the implementations of the g protocol I've used, then.
When I've forced connections at speeds low enough for me to do a manual check,
I haven't noticed a single time where the remote side sends the next data
blocks before each individual ACK is sent (and vice versa).

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From: henryc@reality.UUCP (Christian Henry)
Newsgroups: cle.config,comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Configuring Waffle for higher throughput with Boca 14.4
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