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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: the early teletype
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:37:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On 18 Nov 2024 09:01:47 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> It's dying out though because the modern digital modes have much better
> performance under marginal conditions.

The more efficiently information is encoded, the more it resembles random 
noise.