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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Trailblazer vs. USR 9600 HST
Message-ID: <12375@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 31 Dec 87 03:38:31 GMT
References: <2473@killer.UUCP> <492@hscfvax.harvard.edu> <757@vixie.UUCP> <7907@e.ms.uky.edu> <100@oresoft.UUCP>
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In article <100@oresoft.UUCP> randy@oresoft.UUCP (Randy Bush) writes:
>For that reason, many FidoNetters got Blazers (though many got USR/HSTs too).

Curious. My understanding from newsletters and private mail was that very few
Fidonet sites were fiddling with high-speed modems, since it was (correctly)
determined that the technology wasn't quite ready yet.

>And then TeleBit announced the TB+.  Needless to say, there is considerable
>flaming in the rlevant FidoNet echos on the subject.  Quite a few folk seem
>too feel that they were misled, and now it will cost > $1000 to 'upgrade'.

Even curiousier. The functional improvements in the TrailBlazer+ are increased
RAM space, the replacement of the ACIA chip with an SCC, and some support for
interactive operation. The only things a TB+ can do that the original 'Blazer
cannot are Lempel-Ziv compression and synchronous protocols, neither of which
were ever promised on the old platform. On the other hand, V.22, V.22bis, MNP,
and the 'g'-spoof, which were not available on our original modems and *were*
promised, have turned out very well.

I have been a Telebit cynic from day 1. So far, they have made good on every
promise to deliver new functionality through ROM upgrades.

<csg>