[comp.dcom.modems] `smart' modems

chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (11/17/88)

In article <2628@alliant.Alliant.COM> steckel@Alliant.COM (Geoff Steckel)
writes:
>With a 'dumb' modem I get errors, but the connection stays in place.  ...
>With a[n] "error correcting" modem, I get catastrophic degradation -
>it hangs up.

I know of no error-correcting modem that hangs up on errors.  They
do try to perform flow control, however.
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