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echo: os2
to: Leonard Erickson
from: Rodrigo Cesar Banhara
date: 1999-10-21 04:07:29
subject: Processors, experience, etc

 -=> Quoting Leonard Erickson to Rodrigo Cesar Banhara <=-

 LE> You do pay for this. Anytime a new byte isn't ready to be sent in
 LE> time, you have to add a "dummy" byte to maintain synch. And usually,
 LE> you dedicate one byte value to this, and have to use some sort of
 LE> escape char to actually send that value. Even so, synch is still faster
 LE> than async.
 LE> synch links tend to be *inherently* bi-directional also.

 LE> The main reason I'm interested in synch links is because I've got a
 LE> pair of CSU/DSU units that can do 56k if connected to a sync
 LE> interface, and only 19.2k if hooked to an async one.

Interesting!! Neat, truely... 8)
Part2: Driver for OS/2?!
Where may be found this type of modem?

== Rodrigo Cesar Banhara == rcb@iconet.com.br ==

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