Re: [NTLK] Connection setting for serial connection

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 00:30:46 PST


On Jan 12, 2004, at 10:18 PM, Paul Guyot wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Jann Linder wrote:
>
>> Is the newton only using MNP-5 or mnp2-4 as well or only a subset of
>> them?
>
> Ask me again in a week or two by private mail, I'll dig my exchanges
> with
> Philz & other resources in my hard drive.
>
>> SOMEONE had to write MNP discipine for the serial port for SOMETHING!
>> I cannot figure it out.
>
> Apple used their own implementation on MacOS (part of the CommToolbox)
> and
> paid some company for the implementation on Windows. No one usually
> uses
> this since it's done in the fimrware of the modems.
>
I think it was originally a proprietary product of Microcom, an old
modem maker. It stood for Microcom Network Protocol as I recall.

Like Paul said, it's became a defacto modem standard along with the old
DC hayes modem instruction set...

Marty

PS I know some of you remember when Hayes still existed and had a DC in
front of it.

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