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> 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.



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