Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why are dial-up modems improving faster than direct-wire ones?
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.175330.22493@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3971@phri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 17:53:30 GMT

In article <3971@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	So, my question is why do modern dialup modems get so much better
>performance (compared to the channel they have to work with) than leased
>line modems?

Same reason you can buy a zillion decent AT clones but not a single Sun-3
clone:  bigger market.
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