Re: Motorola 3400 problems, could this be the answer?

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From: Mike Pellatt
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 00:00

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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:08:33 +0100, Jim Segrave <jes@demon.net> wrote:

>And it's possible - it's happened before - to set a standard such that
>two fully compliant devices will not inter-operate, in which case it's
>the standard commitee's fault and you haven't a case against anyone.

In fact, with the complexity of most modern standards involving
communictions software or hardware, I could probably
guarantee that there's a possibility of this happening in
every standard.

That's (partly) why OSI failed and TCP-IP succeeded - OSI was
specified, then implemented, whilst TCP-IP.....

( :-) )

-- 
Mike Pellatt

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From: mike@mpellatt.demon.co.uk (Mike Pellatt)
Subject: Re: Motorola 3400 problems, could this be the answer?
Date: 1997/10/17
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