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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MNP Modems
Message-ID: <1990Jun17.223909.10544@virtech.uucp>
Date: 17 Jun 90 22:39:09 GMT
References: <90167.195055CES8@psuvm.psu.edu> <12785@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <12785@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax (George Robbins) writes:
>In some environments, such as interactive dial-up access over noisey lines
>or file transfer with dumb PC based software, MNP probably as some real
>advantages - on the other hand if you're buying a modem for your home unix
>system, you'd probably never use it...

If you are buying a modem today, I would ensure that you get MNP.  You might
not use it all the time, but you will always be prepared.  I have 5 modems
attached to our system, all of which are mnp and one of which is a T2500
which I use for uucp connections.


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