> XMODEM may be bad for you, excellent for the phone lines it was used for.
XMODEM was terrible over phone lines.
> I found such transfers to be so robust I no longer even worry about packets or retries for such hardware.
People say that about not having backed up their data in the last 20 years, then a lightning storm came and destroyed their data. A storm could do that with data over a cable as well. This shouldn't even be a conversation in 2022.
XMODEM was terrible over phone lines.
> I found such transfers to be so robust I no longer even worry about packets or retries for such hardware.
People say that about not having backed up their data in the last 20 years, then a lightning storm came and destroyed their data. A storm could do that with data over a cable as well. This shouldn't even be a conversation in 2022.