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- Path: darkstar.prodigy.com!davidsen
- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: IT DID WHAT?
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 15:17:53 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4jguv1$1kq8@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <31577D75.7428@rain.org>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: darkstar.prodigy.com
- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <31577D75.7428@rain.org>,
- Jim & Dee Williamson <j+dwill@rain.org> wrote:
-
- | While I'm on the subject, I have a lot of faith in the brilliance of our
- | technical people; but, will some one please explain to me how the science
- | (?) of modems has gotten so far out of hand. There is so damn much
- | confusion. The user can change too many things. My sportster has 8 dip
- | switches on the back of it. Truthfully, I've used $100,000 pieces of very
- | sophisticated electronic gear that didn't have 8 switches on it. On top
- | of that you can control lots more functions by keying in commands. What's
- | going on with these things. My whole damn $3500 computer only has three
- | switches on it! I can't help but believe that the manufacturers are
- | trying to make modems as complicated as possible. I say "REMEMBER KISS"
- | (Keep It Simple, Stupid)! Boy I hope this new Universal Serial Bus will
- | help with some of our interface problems.
-
- They have all those settings because people who know how to use them
- buy modems based on availability of options.
-
- That said, for USR the &F1 and &F2 cover 99% of user needs, and most
- of the init strings post on the net and embedded in software are
- totally bogus. Note that some do address real problems, but most are
- only a few changes from one of the factory defaults. People just
- think they can do better by starting with the most basic config and
- hacking it.
- --
- Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
- last possible moment - but no longer" -me
-