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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: T2500's and v.32bis -- rumors?
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.061634.14390@shaman.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 06:16:34 GMT
Sender: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Organization: Shaman Consulting
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Has anyone heard anything about whether Telebit will start supporting
T2500's with v.32bis? I bounced a message off modems@telebit.com and
this is what they said:

>Subject: Re:  V.32bis availability with T2500's
>Jiro,
>Telebit will be releasing a V.32bis modem within this year.  Sorry I don't
>have a specific date.  We will also offer an upgrade program.  There is not
>an official press release.

	:-(   I wonder what type of upgrade it will be. Does the 68000 in
the T2500 have enough horsepower to run v.32bis? Or maybe the DSP chip?
Hmmm.....
	I hope I haven't gotten techie in trouble, BTW. (Chances that 
Telebit reads USENET are... ?)  I do hope that we can get v.32bis and
cheaply. Telebit *should* show the world that it is totally behind
CCITT standards. I also think that PEP needs a little boost and should
become full duplex. 
	If Telebit gets UUCP spoofing running over v.32bis with v.42bis
(just as it already runs over v.32 with MNP (why not v.42bis????)), then
I don't see that PEP will remain a viable communications standard unless
it gets upgraded. Who knows? Maybe Hayes or USRobotics will finally wake
up and start doing protocol spoofing on their own. 
	
	- Jiro Nakamura
	jiro@shaman.com

Disclaimer: Just a happy customer of Telebit who doesn't want them to go
down the drain. Not affiliated with them in any way, except I own a T2500.
	
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