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On 14 Apr 1997 02:27:46 GMT, "Loiosh the Jhereg" <jhereg@citylinq.com>
wrote:
>---snip---
>> Plus, from what I hear, most companies won't be going along with the US
>> Robotics 56k standards.  Others are waiting for someone else (I think
>> Lucent Tech., maybe?) to come up with another standard.  Who will set the
>> standard?  Who will win the battle of USR vs. the world?  Well, I won't
>be
>> spending $ 200 on that bet.... You may want to wait till it's decided, or
>> you may find that no one has a USR 56k for you to connect to
>> anyway......Just a thought.
>> 
>	USR has already stated that when a standard IS adopted, they will be in
>full support
>of it.  Being the first company to say this means they are the first
>company to think of their

	Not really, it just means that they were the first to announce
that they'd be selling 56k modem.  Damn near every company that
announced support for 56k modems said that they would offer an upgrade
to the future standard (if it turned out not to be what their modems
already supported, which will likely be the case) with their first
notice of 56k support.

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