home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!modus!mas.sublink.org!Ivan_Pintori
- From: Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org (Ivan Pintori)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: protocols, speeds, what are V42bis, etc..
- Message-ID: <Ivan_Pintori.0101@mas.sublink.org>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 03:32:43 GMT
- Organization: MangaZone Advanced Services, Rome - ITALY
- Lines: 16
-
- In a message dated Sat 12 Sep 92 4:38, Paulk@terapin.com (paul Kienitz)
- wrote:
-
- PK> What on earth does the word "bis" actually mean as a word? Is it
- PK> French or something?
-
- It is italian (actually latin ;-) and it can be translated in "do it again"
- and some other set of wrds, basicalli means that something has been done
- again. In the case of the V42Bis (as well as the V22Bis) it is wrongly
- used, since the same thing as the predecessor did not happen.
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.992
-
- | ARPA InterNet Mail --> Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org |
- | Fidonet Matrix ------> FidoNet: Ivan Pintori 2:335/330@fidonet.org |
- | Amiganet Matrix -----> AmigaNet: Ivan Pintori 39:102/3@amiganet.ftn |
-