Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: V.32 will dominate the marketplace (Was: Re: Which is best?)
Message-ID: <1988Nov16.200012.18164@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2261@looking.UUCP> <1248@nusdhub.UUCP> <14515@mimsy.UUCP> <14533@mimsy.UUCP> <721@lts.UUCP> <2628@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 88 20:00:12 GMT

In article <2628@alliant.Alliant.COM> steckel@alliant.Alliant.COM (Geoff Steckel) writes:
>With a 'dumb' modem I get errors, but the connection stays in place.  The
>higher level program will (it had better!) detect errors, retry, and log
>success or failure.  This is relatively soft degradation.  With a "error
>correcting" modem, I get catastrophic degradation - it hangs up.  Real useful.

Of course, with an error correcting modem, as opposed to an "error correcting"
modem, what happens is that the data rate goes down momentarily but nothing
else unpleasant happens.  I've never used an "error correcting" modem, but
we make heavy use of an error correcting modem -- the Trailblazer.
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