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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Excellent new book on serial communications
Message-ID: <1237@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 15:20:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1237
Posted: Wed Oct  7 15:20:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 10:37:02 EDT
References: <830@PSUECLB>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: pinch of salt

In article <830@PSUECLB> mrb@psueclb.BITNET writes:
>Title:  C Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications
>Author:  Joe Campbell
>...it also contains loads of practical information
>on ASCII, RS-232, protocols, UARTS, even a whole chapter (50 pages!!) on
>the Hayes Smartmodem & derivatives. 

I have this book and it is an outstanding instroduction to serial
communications.  But take the Hayes Smartmodem sections with a pinch of
salt.  Campbell does his best to try to make you buy a Hayes modem.

The back cover blurb says Campbell works for a major modem
manufacturer, but the book never identifies which one.  Can you guess
which one?  Can I guess which one?  If you worked for Multitech, would
you write a book plugging Hayes modems?  If you worked for Hayes and
wrote a book plugging Hayes modems, would you consider it ethical not
to tell the reader who you worked for?  These are some unanswered
questions that occurred to me as I read through the 50-odd pages in
that book that sing praises of the Hayes modems.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi