Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Which is best? Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 88 19:57:39 GMT References: <9515@conexch.UUCP> <1125@vsi1.UUCP> <299@telebit.UUCP> <10711@cup.portal.com> <1168@vsi1.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 34 I really can't believe that the discussion is about systems that aren't going to be any good "5 years from now". Have any of you considered what things will be like in five years? Try to remember what you were doing in 1982. I know where I was. I was almost creaming over my Commodore-64 because it had a 40 column screen. Right now I don't have a modem. Really! I use a phone system that offers simultanious voice and data (data is non-blocking at any bps rate... I use 19.2K bps... brag... brag...) as long as I stay on site. If I dial off-site I connect through a modem pool of modems (ok, I admit it, I do *use* some modems, but I don't have one within a 1/4 mile of me). The phone system is all digital and under the phone sits a little IBX<->async interface. My point is that the only thing you can predict about the future is that you can't predict anything about the future. Hopefully within 5 years my computer will speak directly to the phone and there will be protocals for other sites with similar phone systems to allow me to talk to each other like it was one big system. Actually, in 5-10 years I hope to not need to use computers at all. I just want to be able to talk to a little box and have it answer me on a screen (or voice... if it detects I'm not looking at the screen) :-) ...but that's discussion for a different news group. Five years is a lot of time. -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- Student Network Supervisor Drew University, Box 1060, Madison NJ 07940 -- 201-408-5389 new->> tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net "The opinions expressed are mine... just mine." "Network Theory? Just say node!"