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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Starhub -- one alternative to Stargate
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Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 17:00:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 21 17:00:18 1986
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> > It's really easy to figure out, actually:  phone-bill money and capital-
> > equipment money are not freely interconvertible in most large organizations.
> 
> Interesting you should note this, the same problem only worse is true with
> Stargate ...

Quite true.  It will be true of *any* scheme that offers improved service
at the cost of buying equipment.  But on a moderated channel like Stargate,
we won't have to do it over again two years later when our 9600-baud modems
are saturated and we need to upgrade to 19.2.

> Atlease with 9600 baud modem technology it has a dual use of increasing
> productivity with home/remote installations and all the other uses
> modems have ....
> 
> Which is easier to justify????

Neither.  How many home/remote installations do you know of that have 9600
baud modems and want to talk to you that way?  None, right.  Although this
isn't something I'm sure of, I would guess that the vast majority of the
2400-baud modems on the net were bought to help keep news under control,
not because the dialup community was clamoring for them.

Actually, I agree that "dual use" is a useful *excuse*.  It's just that it
wears thin when used for the fifth time in five years, with no end in sight.
We need to control the volume, not constantly struggle to accommodate more
and more and more.
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