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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Simple Question
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.025115.1996@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 10 Feb 91 02:51:15 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.173340.12430@draco.macsch.com> <3771.27b08719@hayes.uucp>
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In article <3771.27b08719@hayes.uucp> tnixon@hayes.uucp writes:
>In article <1991Feb5.173340.12430@draco.macsch.com>,
>swv@convex.is.macsch.com (Scott Vossler) writes: 
>> 	What does 'bis' mean in the V.22bis, V.32bis and V.42bis ?
>
>The headquarters of the CCITT is in Geneva, Switzerland, which is a 
>French-speaking area.  "bis" is a French term which in some 
>dictionaries is loosely defined as "encore" (it is, for example, the 
>word shouted at concerts when you want to band to play another 
>tune).  In the CCITT context, it means "the second in a family of 
>related Recommendations."  "ter" means the third, etc.  V.22bis is 
>very similar to V.22, but adds more bits per symbol to acheive 
>higher data rates; likewise with V.32 and V.32bis.  V.42bis is a 
>data compression scheme designed to be an extension of V.42.


Well, my edition of the standard French dictionary, the "Larousse",
muddles this a bit. It does define "bis" as an adverb meaning
"once again"; but it says that "ter" is a Latin word.

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341