question on using old external DECTalk

[Alex Snow]

Which dectalk is this? Is it the Express, or the older external model 
with the 2 phone jacks in the back that preceded it?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 
at 11:18:33AM -0500, al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I got an old external DECTalk from our commission for the blind.  I tried
> using it briefly yesterday with the Speakup-modified Fedora 10 installation
> CD.  It talked, but even at Speakup's rate 9, seemed notably slower than my
> TripleTalk LT.  I'd thought that a DECTalk, even the oldest ones, wwas
> supposed to be able to speak at something over seven hundred words a minute.
> I didn't see anything on the device itself for adjusting its speech rate.
> 
> Is there some software solution for this, or am I probably stuck with the
> slow speech if I use that device?  Are newer versions of the DECTAlk faster?
> 
> Thank you for any info.
> 
> Al
> 
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/*
 * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum
 * possible RTT.  I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP
 * to talk to the University of Mars.
 * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented
 * ftp to mars will work nicely.
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	-- from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [round trip time]