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- From: DAVIS@licra.dn.mu.oz.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: protocols, speeds, what are V42bis, etc..
- Message-ID: <50599@licra.dn.mu.oz.au>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 02:18:20 GMT
- References: <15315@suns7.crosfield.co.uk> <paulk.1e5k@terapin.com>
- Organization: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
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- In article <paulk.1e5k@terapin.com>, paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
- > What on earth does the word "bis" actually mean as a word? Is it French or
- > something?
-
- The UseNet Oracle was once asked a very similar question. The answer
- appeared in the UseNet Oracularities Digest #428. I reproduce it here for
- your edification.
-
- Ian Davis DAVIS@licr.dn.mu.oz.au
- Priest of the UseNet Oracle
-
- --- 428-03 ---------------------------------------------------------------
- Selected-By: "Klone (aka Daniel V. Klein) " <dvk@SEI.CMU.EDU>
-
- The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
- Your question was:
-
- > What the hell is V.32 bis anyway?
-
- And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
-
- } This designation has been so cleverly encrypted that very few people
- } know of its true origins in the hills outside Dublin. Modems have
- } improved considerably and rapidly over the years, but the old "U"
- } series, known to very few outside of Ireland, were subject to line
- } noise, or "dirt" as the Irish like to call it. When the newer "V"
- } series became available, the brilliant Irish computer wizard, Viddy
- } O'Terminal, was asked to evaluate them. After extensive trials he
- } discovered that the new machines too were plagued by line noise. His
- } subsequent report to his superior was, as always, brief and accurate,
- } but unfortunately was not only misheard but was taken to be his
- } recommendation for the name of the new machine. As Paddy so eloquently
- } put it,
- }
- } "V? Dirty too, boss."
-