Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!netxcom!rfrye
From: rfrye@netxcom.UUCP (Rob Frye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Where is my RJ11??
Summary: RJ11 in US; most countries use screw lugs
Keywords: RJ11, Modem, Fax
Message-ID: <1007@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 12:36:07 GMT
References: <10639@reed.UUCP> <24824@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <10297@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: rfrye@netxcom.UUCP (Rob Frye)
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA
Lines: 19

In article <10297@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>>[... it] was later moved outside the case in a little box that just hangs 
>>there like an appendage. [...] This also leaves more flexibility for use as 
>>a FAX modem, etc.
>
>I don't see why this would be true.  Every FAX I've ever seen has an
>RJ-11, just like every modem I've ever seen.  

You missed the point.  USOC RJ11 is a US (Bellcore?) standard, *not* an
international one.  The physical layer connector was put into a changable
hardware box; the signal handling smarts are all in the NeXT itself.
Perhaps you've only seen modems, etc made for the US, no matter where they
are manufactured.  Modems, fax machines and normal phones (POTs) don't
*all* have that same physical connector...
-- 
Rob Frye
NetExpress Communications, Inc.		Phone: (703)749-2234
1953 Gallows Road, Suite 300		uucp:  uunet!netxcom!rfrye
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