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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: Hidden information in datacomm
Message-ID: <10711@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 01:51:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 01:51:43 1986
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In article <622@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Also note that many high speed modems receive your async data and
>convert it to synchronous for the actual modem<->modem protocol.
>I recall seeing 4800 baud modem designs work that way.  This would
>blow away the shaved stop bits.

Modems as slow as Bell 212 convert async input to sync data before
putting it out on the phone line.

This (shaving stop bits to transmit data) is a very boring subject, in
my opinion. If you can modulate at twice your bit rate or four times
your bit rate, why not just send ALL your bits faster? Why stop with
only diddling the stop bit? (this paragraph is in response to the
original question. John Gilmore's article points out a useful
application of bit shaving.)
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