Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Trailblazer vs. USR 9600 HST (&& recent USR+Hayes agreement) Message-ID: <7907@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 22 Dec 87 04:58:10 GMT References: <2473@killer.UUCP> <492@hscfvax.harvard.edu> <757@vixie.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 35 In article <757@vixie.UUCP> paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) writes: >Telebit is a very nice modem, though. I wonder if they can adapt to the >coming "industry standard" with another ROM release...? Those of us buying >the Trailblazers to connect to UUNET and other USENET sites would all, I'm >sure, like to know if we are about to own Edsels or not.. Yeah, I was worried about that too .. so I called Mike Ballard to ask that and a few other questions. Every question I asked along these lines was answered that it would simply be a ROM change. Yes, they can emulate any of the 9600 baud protocols with a ROM change. (Maybe even higher speed?) Adding more protocols a la the UUCP and Kermit stuff is also simple ROM changes. (I wonder how much room they have left in their ROM's). In other words ... they have good enough control over what happens on the phone line that they can do just about anything they want to. He also said that Telebit was making efforts in the CCITT committee's to have PEP established as one of the Official Protocols. I'm not afraid to buy these modems. We have two on order here right now. I'd even buy one for home if I could afford it. If worse comes to worse, they change their modems around to become compatible with whatever standard emerges and possibly keep their own standard in the ROM's as well. If things go really bad and they fold ... well, there's a number of people around who own Telebit's so we won't feel terribly lonely :-). -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Winter health warning: Remember, don't eat the yellow snow!