On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:47:18PM -0800, Chuck Guzis
wrote:
When did using async parity go out of style?
I certainly don't mind, because it seemed as if it was annoying (inadvertant
mismatch => systems stubbornly refuse to communicate) more often than it was
helpful (tells you about a transmission error so minor that you wouldn't have
noticed otherwise). Protocols already do their own error detection, and for
plain text the problems are usually obvious}i
Seems to me that E71 was pretty much a given in the ASR 33 heyday.
Getting a telegram with garbled characters was probably a very big deal
to WU.
Might as well get rid of magtape parity...
--Chuck