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From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayes SM 9600 V-series calls Intel 9600ex; sad results
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.024422.29043@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 20 Jun 91 02:44:22 GMT
References: <297872.285F3168@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Mad Artists' Technological Hangout
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In article <297872.285F3168@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> you write:

>  > Considering that the vast majority of BBS systems are running a HST
>  > for high speed, I don't think that's going to be a problem for him. There's
>  > a big difference between going with a "standard" proprietary format
>  > and a nonstandard one.                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> "Standard" propretary format.  hehe.  No flame here, but the phrasing 
> is kind of interesting. 

Well, HST is a de facto standard in the FidoNet world.  If you don't
have HST there, you often don't have the option of high speed.

I am reminded of a wall poster from Intergraph which had a large
chart of all sorts of communications protocols.  The caption at
the bottom read "The nice thing about standards is that there are
so many of them."

cjs
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