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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Can AT Surfer compete with Apple/Disney?
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 16:03:08 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
- Message-ID: <4ga6vs$7r2@news.ox.ac.uk>
- References: <4g4t4s$466@flood.xnet.com> <1282.6621T740T329@Th0r.foo.bar> <4g573b$gh9@flood.xnet.com>
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- In article <4g573b$gh9@flood.xnet.com>,
- Jason Compton <jcompton@flood.xnet.com> wrote:
- [...]
- >People aren't going to buy totally new technology more often than they
- >buy cars. The fact that VHS VCRs and home computers caught on, I
- >believe, is something of a fluke. Don't count on ISDN madness sweeping
- >the nation.
-
- And madness it would be, because ISDN is neither new nor particularly
- spectacular these days. It only offers double the speed of an ordinary modem
- now (though potentially at lower cost). I don't see ISDN ever becoming a
- consumer technology.
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