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- From: kota@carroll.com (Kotaro Yamaguchi)
- Subject: Re: To V42Bis or not to V42Bis??
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- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 04:32:38 GMT
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- And I thought serial ports only communicated at 8bits...
-
- Silly me,
- kota
-
- On Sun, 04 Feb 1996 20:03:49 -0500, eric@accessorl.net (Eric Shaw)
- wrote:
- >Note: the 3388cps without compression comes from dividing 28800 by 8.5
- >bits/byte instead of 10. Error correction strips out the start and stop
- >bits between the modems, so there are 8 bits per byte instead of 10 like
- >you have through the serial port. I used 8.5 instead of 8 then because
- >there is a little bit of overhead for the v.42 checksums. The number is
- >not *exactly* 8.5, but it is close. The exact number depends on your v.42
- >packet size.
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