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But it produces a protocol which is incapable of handling messages greater than a certain length. The marketplace is littered with such protocols, but they're a
by mcherm 14y ago
But it produces a protocol which is incapable of handling messages greater than a certain length. The marketplace is littered with such protocols, but they're all useless since they can no longer even transmit a single wordprocessing document now that a page of text takes up megabytes of overhead.
- m_eiman 14y agoIt's not every protocol that must handle arbitrary messages, that doesn't make them useless. Having a 9600 baud half duplex connection for messaging that requires low latency is quite different from 1Gbps Ethernet, and that makes every byte count.