BG> And you still haven't explained why anybody would 
BG> be stupid enough to run 
BG> their modem and terminal with mismatched serial port bit rates.

 PE> They're NOT running them at mismatched baud rates.  THAT's what
 PE> autobaud does, it makes the modem pick up the speed automatically.
 PE> What do you think the point of autobaud is anyway?  Anyone who
 PE> uses autobaud is stupid?  

 Paul, your arguments don't make sense. You are conveniently ignoring what
modems do in "Variable Speed" mode where they automatically
adjust the DTE speed to the connect speed of an incoming call. No doubt
your dumb terminal would have just as much trouble changing speed here too.
In reality people use "Locked" rates with high speed modems and
that speed would be constant. i.e. when the modem is configured and
AT&W done, that would always be the speed it was used in, in future,
thus ATZ would only return to the speed it was in anyway (even on a dumb
terminal).

 I imagine you don't think "Variable Speed" mode is a "bug".  :-)

Peter.

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