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Timothy (tim@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
>It is one of the great mysteries of life to me
>how the company that put out the 14.4k U-modems
>could also put out the Elite.

My guess: since they're going for the high end modem market, they tried to
add every bell and whistle they could think of to the next generation
product.  The first problem was that getting all that hardware to work took
too long, which also somewhat delayed the software.  Had the modem come out
a year earlier, when the ink on the first version of the V.34 standard was
not quite dry, customers would have been more forgiving of problems and by
now, a year of debugging and enhancements later, it would have been a fine
product.  Six months or a year from now, the next version of the analog
Elite will probably be a stable, working, featureful, competitive V.34+
product, worth the cost for those who need the high end hardware features,
and the Omni will be there for those who don't need the extra hardware or
upgradability.  They've just taken way too long.
 -WBE