Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!ucla-ma!pico!barry From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Telecommunications package Keywords: modem Message-ID: <1991Mar10.014727.247@math.ucla.edu> Date: 10 Mar 91 01:47:27 GMT References: Sender: news@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research Lines: 27 >declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) writes: >> >> The product I'm thinking of will be a telecommunications package deal: >> a V.32/V.42/V.42bis modem with full 9600 bps fax capabilities and some >> bundled software. What software? How about a nice, small modem program >> similar (but better) $-) than Communicae, and also some user-friendly >> UUCP-installation software. >> -Declan / declan@remus.rutgers.edu Initially, I thought this was a good idea---and there still might be a niche for it. But now I prefer the "solution" from Software Engineering Solutions: try and integrate all phone related services (modem, fax, answering machine, and even the telephone itself) into a single NextStep application for phone management. (As suggested by Varun Mitroo, perhaps the NeXT itself could be turned into a telephone! This is a big savings, since then the phone is already black :-) In short, lets open our mind to addressing the full spectrum of phone activities in a consistent, elegant fashion, and get away from thinking about modem, fax, ans machine, etc as totally unrelated products. -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)