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Re: Sportster Vi 28,800 modem - any good ?

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From: bill davidsen
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:43
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In article <4ifedt$hi0@linux.nildram.co.uk>,
Roger SS Burgess <roger@burgess.nildram.co.uk> wrote:

| was when 1 of their engineeers told me that the Sportser V34 was type
| 2.0 compliant but not 2 compliant same applied to type 1.0 and 1.
| If you just want to access the net its fine but if you need to fax
| forget it

What's the problem with that, other than that the people who named
the standards were on drugs? 2 and 2.0 are not the same, and decent
fax software should support both. Of all the bad things about the
modem, this doesn't seem to be a problem.
--
	-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
		-Dave Welch
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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
Newsgroups: uk.comp.misc,uk.net,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Sportster Vi 28,800 modem - any good ?
Date: 19 Mar 1996 23:43:49 GMT
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