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- From: puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- Subject: Re: To V42Bis or not to V42Bis??
- Message-ID: <pumaDMs95s.M7v@netcom.com>
- Organization: organized?? me?
- References: <4ej6rh$oa2@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <4f0jnq$dr7@hg.oro.net> <eric-0402962003490001@sobt.accessorl.net> <DMACqq.54G@news2.new-york.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:34:39 GMT
- Sender: puma@netcom11.netcom.com
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- In article <DMACqq.54G@news2.new-york.net>,
- Kotaro Yamaguchi <kota@carroll.com> wrote:
- >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.
-
- >And I thought serial ports only communicated at 8bits...
- >
- >Silly me,
- >kota
-
- The data IS 8 bits, the 8.5 is a divisor that includes a fudge-factor
- to account for the overhead. If you want, divide by 8 and then figure
- in the overhead, the 8.5 is a good and quick approximation.
-
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