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Having lived through the modem era and having run a BBS, I've never seen N81 or E71 before. You must have been running a particular piece of software that made
by timbit42 5y ago
Having lived through the modem era and having run a BBS, I've never seen N81 or E71 before. You must have been running a particular piece of software that made up it's own nomenclature.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoThe grandparent is talking about parity, data bits, and stop bits[0]. Different serial communications protocols had different framing needs. If you were dealing with PC-based BBS's, for the most part, you wouldn't have run into anything aside from N81. I didn't see much E71 outside of X.25 networks. [0] https://www3.nd.edu/~lemmon/courses/ee224/web-manual/web-manual/lab12/node2.html https://www3.nd.edu/~lemmon/courses/ee224/web-manual/web-man...