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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The progress bar must go so slow.

At least it isn't just a spinning wheel, that'd be torture.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The prograss bar probably has a binary counter because else you wouldnt see the progress :p

I wonder how much redundancy was integreted into the transmission.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They had CRC back then, so at least something rudimentary must be in place.

[–] sleep_deprived@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I work in IT but understood little of that. Thanks for sharing though.

ETA: heck, you can’t see comments in reader view. I was lost until opening in safari.