Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V23 on T2500
Message-ID: <216.28584130@zswamp.uucp>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:54:39 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario

In a letter to All, Greg Andrews (gandrews@netcom.COM ) wrote:

 >The U.K. modem uses an RS232 speed of 1200 in both 
 >directions, while
 >the modem transmits at 75 bps and receives at 1200 bps.  No 
 >need for
 >a special port in your computer...

   Living in Canada and dealing almost exclusively with North American 
modems, I've never had the fun of using one of these... do V.23 modems in 
general use handshaking to prevent modem buffer overrun, or do the 
manufacturers simply hope that no one will try an ASCII upload or streaming 
protocol transmit over these devices?
 

--  
Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171)
root@zswamp.uucp or ..uunet!watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root
602-66 Mooregate Crescent, Kitchener, ON, N2M 5E6 Canada (519)741-9553
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