On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, MegaZone wrote:
> Once upon a time Jacob Suter shaped the electrons to say...
> >hmm, USR spams again. *sigh*. Lets see, if I was to order 20 of them,
> >and they connected like my 33.6k Courier does here (21.6k), I guess I
> >could find someone at USR to beat up - using the 56K doorstops as
> >weapons.
>
> On top of that:
> 1. Rockwell has a competing standard that may not work with USR.
> 2. AT&T also has one. Ditto.
> 3. From what I've seen all 3 are trying to get the ITU-T to accept it as a
> new standard.
>
> Do they think we've forgotten V.FC and V.FAST?
>
> When there is a standard (And I expect their will be soon) then it is a
> serious consideration.
And back when there were only 14.4K modems I had a USR 16.8K. USR said
"It works great. Our modem connected to you 16.8K no problem!" I could
only get 2400 connecting to anything else! Boy was I glad when the power
supply died and I could downgrade to 14.4.
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Steven P. Crain scrain@shore.net http://www.shore.net/~scrain
Shore.Net Unix Development and Administration
An ISP with Excellence in the Greater Boston Area.
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