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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Running phone line and RS232 line at different speeds
Message-ID: <623@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 06:28:44 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 16 06:28:44 1986
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In article <12900003@svo.UUCP>, corey@svo.UUCP writes:
> 	It has two modes of operation.  The first is Microcom's "SX" mode which
> has some very nice features such as independant speeds on the RS-232 
> line and the phone line.  This is a blessing for all of those people
> out there without source since you can set the terminal line speed to 9600
> and let the modem take care of the conversion to 300, 1200 or 2400.

I don't understand this.  What happens if you start outputting at 9600
baud to your modem but it only runs 1200 over the phone line?  Whether
it throws away data, inserts ^S and ^Q into your incoming data stream,
or requires hardware flow control, all of these sound like major drawbacks.
If on the other hand these modem mfrs have invented infinite sized buffers,
well, more power to them -- and when can I get a random-access version?
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa