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Ohhhh, is _this_ where the 7-bit transfer settings came from? That always seemed a weird number to me (unless a bit was instead repurposed as a parity bit).

• Arubis 3y ago
  On second though, probably not; the same 7/8 bit settings plus parity and stop are available on non-POTS-dependent serial ports as well.
• hinkley 3y ago
  Whatever the wire protocols were that were responsible, the fact that UUNet exposed it is why we all had to deal with it.