[ih] uucp, was Question re rate of growth of the Arpanet

[John Levine]

It appears that Johan Helsingius via Internet-history <julf at Julf.com> said:
>On 21/04/2025 22:15, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via 
>Internet-history wrote:
>
>> then there was UUCP... can anyone chime in what the "minimum" acceptable
>> bit rate for that was?  anything less than Bell 202 at 1.2 or Racal Vadic
>> at 2.4?
>
>Pretty much, yes. Leaf nodes could survive on a 1200 bps connection,
>but I don't think I ever saw anything slower.

I think I set up a 300 bps leaf node but didn't run much traffic over it.

All the serious uucp nodes used Telebit modems that had special support for uucp
and could run about 14K bps over a regular phone line. I believe that was the
best you could do until the era of 56K modems that cheated by connecting
directly to digital trunks.

R's,
John