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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayes v.32
Message-ID: <9781@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 12:52:40 GMT
References: <25E23033.5013@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <25E23033.5013@orion.oac.uci.edu> eapu030@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jason Goldberg) writes:
> I just recieved one of the Hayes V.32 9600 baud modems.  I was under the
> impression that V.32 had error correction and data compression and thus
> could provide better than 9600 throughput.  Also I was under the impression
> that V.32 supported some level of MNP.

No, you are confused.  "V.32" only refers to the details of the "analog"
signalling between the modems.  "Transparent" error control and protocols
like MNP are "layered" on top as suits the modem vendor.  The V.42 stuff
represents an attempt to standardize one such feature suite...

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