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From: drb at msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
Subject: [COFF] 52-pin D-Sub?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:05:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200228220532.17F741ADFAF@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sat, 29 Feb 2020 08:58:40 +1100.) <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2002290850410.1121@aneurin.horsfall.org>

 > using the secondary pins as well.

Best I could tell, the major intended purpose of the secondary circuits
was to implement autodialer, especially when those handshaking signals
on the primary were down because there was no connection, so you
couldn't do anything through them yet.

Was there anything else in mind during the spec process?

De


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-28 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-27 23:37 athornton
2020-02-28  0:04 ` dave
2020-02-28  1:37   ` stewart
2020-02-28  2:12     ` athornton
2020-02-28  4:12     ` dave
2020-02-28  4:18       ` dave
2020-02-28 14:11         ` clemc
2020-02-28 14:34           ` athornton
2020-02-28 21:23             ` dave
2020-02-28 16:35           ` krewat
2020-02-28 21:28             ` dave
2020-02-28 21:44               ` clemc
2020-02-28 21:58                 ` dave
2020-02-28 22:20                   ` clemc
2020-02-28 23:22                     ` pechter
2020-02-29 13:12                       ` emu
2020-02-29 15:45                         ` krewat
2020-02-29 15:49                           ` clemc
2020-02-28 22:38                   ` pechter
2020-02-28 22:05                 ` drb [this message]
2020-02-28 22:28                   ` clemc
2020-02-28 22:26                 ` pechter
2020-02-28 22:36                   ` clemc
2020-02-28 23:40                     ` pechter
2020-02-29 16:52                       ` clemc
2020-02-28 23:54                     ` pechter
2020-02-29  9:59 rudi.j.blom

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