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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.groups,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: PPP: Let's create comp.protocols.ppp
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Date: 24 Apr 91 09:15:12 GMT
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In article <EMV.91Apr23040707@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
> > comp.protocols.internet.eia, EIA-XXX interfaces and voiceband /
> > leased-line analog modems
> PPP runs on both async and sync lines.  EIA is more meaningless even
> than PPP as an acronym.

Yeah. What's wrong with comp.protocols.serial? The *protocols* here are
serial, even if they run over parallel or asynchronous lines.

---Dan