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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V.32bis and V.17 approved by CCITT
Message-ID: <19795@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 00:41:59 GMT
References: <3841.27d78365@hayes.uucp> <1991Mar10.190118.10151@panix.uucp> <3847.27da9192@hayes.uucp> <1991Mar11.231226.17795@panix.uucp>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Mar11.231226.17795@panix.uucp> schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) writes:
> In article <3847.27da9192@hayes.uucp> tnixon@hayes.uucp writes:
> >
> >While I can unilaterally and spontaneously generate 
> >standards-related messages without running afoul of Hayes' PR 
> >department, I certainly can't do that with product announcements.  
> >Besides, if I _had_ included a product announcement, half a dozen 
> >other folks would have flamed me, right?  :-)
> 
> 
> We DO appreciate your position. =I= wouldn't have flamed you ... but
> I can't speak for anyone else :-)
> 
> It just seems as though Hayes is poised to be the last in the pool again,
> and the popular belief was that this time they were just waiting for V.32bis
> to be "official". Randy Cooper says he doesn't know =when= Hayes will be
> marketing a V.32bis modem. People are beginning to wonder if they have any
> desire to.

I think this is pretty silly (even if I did say something similar about
Teblebit the other day).  All you can really infer is that Hayes doesn't
feel that time-to-market is an overriding issue for the success in the
V.32bis market.  They're probably right, eh?  8-)

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