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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Modem disconnecting
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 05:27:00 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4dpuf4$j40@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <1373.6578T735T2832@midland.co.nz> <4cmrrq$q7r@guava.epix.net> <4cv2s5$2lk@news2.delphi.com> <HOqqrMAkD58wEwpn@urban75.demon.co.uk> <4d19ca$hpk@news.sdd.hp.com> <19960114.78BF890.95B9@ragtime.vnet.net>
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- In article <19960114.78BF890.95B9@ragtime.vnet.net>,
- jkay@ragtime.vnet.net (John Kelly) wrote:
- >
- > Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com> writes:
- >
- >> I think you and Joanne are comparing apples and pears here (could be
- >> wrong). She's touting the abilities of the top of the USR product line,
- >> and the Sportster is the very DREGS of the USR product line. I don't
- >> even think they share the same architecture. The Sportster was made to
- >> do one thing: put USR in the consumer market.
- >
- > Right you are, Jeff .. Courier uses fantastic custom DSP data pump tech,
- > and the Sportster uses plain old Rockwell, like the Supra.
-
- I am quite aware of this difference. In fact this is the source of the great
- surprise I experienced when I tried the Sportster 28.8 after trying the Supra
- and some slower models. All I could figure is that the Sportster DAA (Data
- Access Arrangement) better matched the circuitry within the Inmarsat terminal we
- used for testing. (Do not forget that DAA design is another element of near
- witchcraft in modem design.)
-
- >--
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > jkay@ragtime.com | ... heard a singer on the radio, late | Protect
- > SysOp, Ragtime East | last night; said he's gonna kick the | the
- > Net-Viking ]:| | darkness, 'till it bleeds daylight ... | Net!
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
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