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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (Every system needs one)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: UUCP g stats
Message-ID: <741@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 07:22:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: wsccs.741
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In article <13922@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> >>You probably want to multiply by (at least) 10 instead of just 8
> >>since the 1 start bit and 1 to 2 stop bits count here as well.
> 
> In article <2032@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> tboutell@vax1.acs.udel.EDU
> (Thomas B Boutell) writes:
> >This is not true under all circumstances, even with asynchronous modems.
> >The Telebit Trailblazer and USR HST 9600, to name two, are capable of
> >eliminating the two stop bits when communicating at their highest speeds;
> 
> The problem is that I cannot get the Vax (or Sun or . . .) to use anything
> less than 10 bits.
> 
> Remember, the idea is to find the use of the `available' bandwidth,
> which is no better than the rate at which I can get my Vax hardware
> to send or receive.  (I know: `fixed in 4.0' :-) )

So seldom does anyone get to correct Chris and get away with it by being
100% correct and therefore untouchable unless he hunts down something
stupid you've said somewhere else ;-), that I must take this gloden
opportunity:

	The actual connection on the line is SYNCHRONUS, removing the
need for stop-bits.  While it is true that you still communicate to the
TrailBlazer or the HST asynchronusly, the actual connection is synchronus;
Timing is provided by a seperate clock, not the start and stop bits which
are needed to prevent framing errors in an asynchronus connection.


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