Care to guess who gathered all the RFC info and user requests and took it
to engineering to implement? ;-)
>Yeah. A lot of people were able to connect at speeds higher than 14.4
>for a long time (in datacom years) until the ITU was finally able to
>publish a v.34 standard and the modem vendors were finally able to
>implement it.
>
>That's bad, is it?
Yes. It has left a legacy of half-baked modems that can't work with
the standards, forcing other modem makers to weigh down their code with
support for this abominations.
If the very same companies who make V.FC and V.FAST hadn't argued with
each other for so long in the standards process we could have had V.34
earlier. But they all wanted to have it their way -in the end everyone
got screwed. Customer couldn't use a standard and the none of the companies
won either.
Hurray.
-MZ
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