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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: uk.comp.misc,uk.net,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster Vi 28,800 modem - any good ?
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 23:43:49 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4ingrl$1usq@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <31372FE6.4E3B@vax.sbu.ac.uk> <4hqstk$h0d@newsgate.dircon.co.uk> <4ifedt$hi0@linux.nildram.co.uk>
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- In article <4ifedt$hi0@linux.nildram.co.uk>,
- Roger SS Burgess <roger@burgess.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
-
- | was when 1 of their engineeers told me that the Sportser V34 was type
- | 2.0 compliant but not 2 compliant same applied to type 1.0 and 1.
- | If you just want to access the net its fine but if you need to fax
- | forget it
-
- What's the problem with that, other than that the people who named
- the standards were on drugs? 2 and 2.0 are not the same, and decent
- fax software should support both. Of all the bad things about the
- modem, this doesn't seem to be a problem.
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
- -Dave Welch
-