Dave Keal
SIERRA INTERNET
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On Thu, 15 May 1997 falken@htonline.com wrote:
> My question is why in the world would you buy Lucent, when they are
> not compatible with USR X2??? Most users (at least in this neck of
> the woods) are using USR X2, so why would the ISP want to use
> something that is not compaitble???
>
> Not that X2 is the standard as proclaimed, but if all the endusers
> use them, (or most of them), are the end users proclaiming a defacto
> standard???
>
>
>
> > Subject: Current PM3 modem cards (fwd)
> > To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> > Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:14:50 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
> > Organization: WPI Discordian Society, Undocumented Cabal of the Accursed Saint Shiranto Joe
> > Reply-to: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
>
> > Once upon a time Brian Elfert shaped the electrons to say...
> > >Considering that the Lucent modem cards should ship within 45 days, why is
> > >engineering still putting a lot of effort into a product that will be
> > >obsolete in 45 days?
> >
> > People will not all be switching over the day the new cards appear.
> >
> > >Wouldn't the engineering time be better spent on being sure the Lucent
> > >modem cards work 100% from the start?
> >
> > Lucent is writing the modem code - out SW and HW is basically done, we're
> > waiting on Lucent.
> >
> > -MZ
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> >
> >
> >
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