CIM for Amiga
03-Oct-92 03:11:58
Sb: #72086-CIM for Amiga
Fm: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
To: Michael Gerard 75505,1757
"Wouldn't that 20 minute download become more on the order of 40
minutes.."
No way.. more like from 20 to 22 minutes. It's like multitasking; if two
programs are running, but one of them is almost constantly waiting for
input then the other program effectively runs at full speed. A few lines
of text every minute has essentially no impact on the data throughput.
Either that, or I am wrong and this HMI protocol is technically rotten.
But I wouldn't think so.
Think about it.. a 30 minute conference may prolong a (single or batch)
file download taking equally as long by perhaps 2 or 3 minutes. The impact
of your CO on your "online time" has effectively been sqaushed by 90%. If
you happened to be uploading something, also, the impact of THAT would
have been virtually NIL! You would have been utilitizing the other
'duplex' of your modem's bandwidth. From a human point-of-view, you're
getting 2.9 things done AT THE SAME TIME.
All you have to do is schedule all your up/downloding to coincide with
COs you're interested in, and voila!
-Chris