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From: craig@pyuxv.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.invest,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Home banking via UNIX (and market sense!)
Message-ID: <165@pyuxv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 17:04:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 17:04:50 1985
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Organization: RB Craig @ Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
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>>When I applied for Spectrum (SM) access, Chase Manhattan denied the
>>application because the software wasn't compatible with my AT&T 4000
>>modem.  What a shock.  I was under the impression that AT&T played some
>>historical role in the development of modems.
>
>I don't know that recognition of anyone's historical role was an important
>motivation in the development of Spectrum.
>
>The 4000 did not exist when the Spectrum software was developed.  Furthermore,
>it is not Hayes compatible.

What is so precious about Hayes compatibility...
Who elected them the 'IBM' of modems in the world at large!

>                            ..........The Spectrum software uses the
>Hayes dialing commands.  The issue is not whether the 4000 is a splendid
>device, ...but whether it makes market sense for Chase to write a
>special version to support it.

The real issue:  Why would Chase develop a system that was restrictive
as to modem protocal?  Dozens of good software developers have produced
communications packages that allow flexibility in modem access.  Products
like Crosstalk-XVI, SofTerm, ASCII Express, and many others make no
stipulation about modems.  These products don't care how modems are
labeled or what hieroglyphics are contained in their command set.
(Most products even support dumb modems.)

Speaking of dumb; market sense would seem to dictate that the broadest
possible base of hardware configurations be accomodated by any software
product.  That the Chase Spectrum developers chose otherwise is ____.
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