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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Sendmail and Trailblazers on NeXTs
Message-ID: <890@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 01:19:33 GMT
References: <662@nvuxl.UUCP> <52549@brunix.UUCP> <BOB.90Oct15151159@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <BOB.90Oct15151159@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
	bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>Other standards specifications have appeared in the intervening years,
>such as you describe (e.g. the CCITT V.* series), and lots of folks
>use modems that implement them in preference over Telebit's
>proprietary modulation system.  Perhaps you've just heard more people
>with NeXTs talk about how happy they are with their Trailblazers.

PEP (Telebit's proprietary modulation/error correction system)
succeeds because it's technically superior to the V.* protocols.
Realizing that half the population has IQs <100, I bought a
Telebit 2500, so I have PEP _and_ V.32+V.42bis.  With ISDN and
SMDS on the horizon, this will probably be The Last Modem I
Ever Buy.

I suppose I could wait for V.32bis, but I just don't see that
much future in "conventional" modems.

					-=EPS=-