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This was patent encumbered and also a DoS vulnerability: tricking anyone into transmitting that sequence would knock them offline!

There must have been a better solution than this.

One possibility comes to mind: switch modes when the computer briefly toggles the DTR signal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Ter

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