Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: UUCP g stats
Message-ID: <1988Oct10.000314.27955@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <184@arnold.UUCP> <1892@van-bc.UUCP> <2032@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 88 00:03:14 GMT

In article <2032@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> tboutell@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Thomas B Boutell) writes:
>The Telebit Trailblazer and USR HST 9600, to name two, are capable of
>eliminating the two stop bits when communicating at their highest speeds...

However, this is academic unless themodem-to-host links are running at a
still higher baud rate, since the start and stop bits (there is normally
only one stop bit, but the modems take the start bit out too) do have to
be there on an asynchronous modem-to-host link.
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