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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Analog versus DDS circuits for SLIP
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Date: 14 Nov 89 14:35:36 GMT
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In article <9289@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>,
martyne@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Martyne Hallgren) writes:
> When I think of implementing SLIP between machines, I generally assume 
> that I will be using an analog circuit and modems.  Can a DDS circuit 
> with appropriate CSU/DSUs be used instead??  and if not, why not??  

In general, SLIP only needs a full-duplex 8 bit wide channel in order to
operate.  Asynchronous serial happens to be the most common such channel
for most people, but as long as both sides can talk to the media, there's
no reason you couldn't run SLIP over a DDS, or for that matter, a
bidirectional parallel port :-).

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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