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From: acmpres@zeus.unomaha.edu (Dave Caplinger)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Predictions on what ISDN can be used for?
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Date: 24 Sep 90 17:11:57 GMT
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Daniel Lance Herrick notes:
 
> *We* are not spending this money.  Our telephone system suppliers are
> spending it for the purpose of making more money by providing you with
> better, more flexible service.  The convenient features are available 
> from the software in current central offices and are not related to ISDN.

Additionally, I suppose that if Plan 9 works out well, ISDN would provide
a transport for it (well into the future).  Then, ISDN would allow new
"small" businesses to provide CPU-server and file-server services to the
public (meaning people w/ ISDN in their homes/businesses) at large, for a
fee of course. :-)

Well, ok, perhaps I should say that "something like Plan 9", perhaps (!)
with an interface more palatable to "the common user" could succeed in this
environment.  (I imagine something similar to Prodigy, hopefully more like
America Online, or we're going to be really demented, something like
US West's CommunityLink project [but God, I hope not].)

Dave Caplinger