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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: `smart' modems (was: V.32 will dominate the marketplace)
Message-ID: <14575@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 16:28:29 GMT
References: <2261@looking.UUCP> <1248@nusdhub.UUCP> <14515@mimsy.UUCP> <2628@alliant.Alliant.COM>
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In article <2628@alliant.Alliant.COM> steckel@Alliant.COM (Geoff Steckel)
writes:
>With a 'dumb' modem I get errors, but the connection stays in place.  ...
>With a[n] "error correcting" modem, I get catastrophic degradation -
>it hangs up.

I know of no error-correcting modem that hangs up on errors.  They
do try to perform flow control, however.
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