28 Jan
2014
28 Jan
'14
3:30 p.m.
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
John Wilson
D Bit