Talk:Binary Synchronous Communications

This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.

Author's Intent[edit]

This article is intended as a replacement for the article: Binary Synchronous Transmission. I have borrowed two sentence fragments from that article. The redirect from "Bisync" should be changed after this article has been wikified.Rdmoore6 20:51, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've picked up some missing bits from Binary Synchronous Transmission and made it redirect here. Guy Harris 02:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Missing material[edit]

Expanding the Applications section would be good. I implemented Bisync support for IPSANET in 1978 and could provide a few examples. Much of my experience is removed from the conventional IBM OS/360 software area so I am unable to comment accurately on IBM SW.

I was unable to find much material on the Transcode alphabet.Rdmoore6 20:51, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See Transcode (character encoding) Peter Flass (talk) 23:10, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Correct" acronym format[edit]

The article included the acronym variously a BiSync, bisync, and Bisync (I've also seen BISYNC). I googled ibm.com and believe the Bisync form is "most correctest" and have changed the article accordingly. Out of the first 20 IBM hits I found ten "Bisync", four "bisync", one "BiSync", and five "BISYNC". The original undated "General Information" manual seems to use only "BSC". Peter Flass (talk) 23:08, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Framing[edit]

The section on "Framing" seemed somewhat incoherent and appeared to contain text merged from various sources including redundancies, etc. I reworked it to some extent based on the Bisync General Info" manual I've cited. It isn't complete, but is hopefully a bit better. Peter Flass (talk) 00:28, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]