Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!vsi1!wyse!mips!sultra!dtynan From: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Which is best? Summary: Give me a break! Message-ID: <2611@sultra.UUCP> Date: 4 Nov 88 02:18:42 GMT References: <9515@conexch.UUCP> <1125@vsi1.UUCP> <299@telebit.UUCP> <10711@ <10805@cup.portal.com> Distribution: na Organization: Tynan Computers, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 56 In article <10805@cup.portal.com>, David@cup.portal.com (David Michael McCord) writes: > > They went on to say that by this time next year, it was expected that modems > based on this design would be offered at retail for $750 or less. > > I was gratified to see this confirmation of my statement that V.32 was going > to smash the telebit/hst/etceteras "within a year". And I thought I was going > out on a limb! Heh heh. > > David@cup.portal.com I wasn't going to reply to your last (and stupid) posting. I bit back all the smart remarks. Then, you put this up for perusal. I mean, please!!! On the average, you seem to have two 'jokes' in every posting. The last time, you said that you were a 'telecommunications expert, with the salary scale to prove it.' Really. Shall we get into a salary war here? Who do you think subscribes to this network? This is not your average Portal BBS. If you want to impress teenagers with your 'experience', then keep your distribution local, or post messages to local bulletin boards, but PLEASE keep your condescending attitude out of this forum. When you said you worked for a "big tele- communications company", I stopped and thought for a minute. What company would sacrifice big gains today, for the promise of something better "within a year". Then it came to me. You work for ROLM (now IBM). Who else would pay a salary to a turkey. While you are playing around at 300 baud, the rest of us will do some *real world* communicating. But wait!!! There's more!!! Don't buy a V.32 "next year", because someone will have promised a V.EVEN-BETTER, and you wouldn't want to invest in an archaic standard, now would you? For a supposed professional, you do seem to place an awful lot of faith in what the trade-rags have to say, now don't you? In fact, maybe soon your boss will fire you, and replace you with a subscription to "Network World". When you're anywhere *near* the cutting edge, the stuff that is printed in the trade-rags is old news and incorrect. Hmmm. Network world. Weren't they the people who told us that IBM's token ring would rule the world "within a year". That controllers would be available at your local 7-11, for $3.95 (including tax), and that ALL banking would be done at home via local-area-networks :-) Aren't they related to such pillars of journalism as PC-world, who seriously believe that unless it's got I-B-M on the front, no-one will buy it? Particularly in the world of Personal Computers. Ah yes! And for this they pay your HUGE salary :-) You can stick with your V.32 if you want. I once say a cartoon of Andrew Logie Baird (the inventor of television) sitting in front of a prototype TV. The screen is blank. His wife is talking to a neighbour; "He's waiting for someone to invent programs". I can just see you now, with your $750 V.32 modem; "someone, ANYONE, talk to me! please!!!". As it happens, by the way, the Telebit modem uses DSP technology. The actual protocol is in software. It should be feasable to upgrade the thing to V.99999 if that's really what you want. The bottom line here, is V.32 is 9600 baud BIDIRECTIONAL. A bidirectional modem ain't worth the power consumption in the USENET world. But hey, you're a telecom expert... you already knew that didn't you... :-) - Der ps: my criticism of Rolm is well-founded -- that's what they use here :-( -- Reply: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan @ Tynan Computers) {mips,pyramid}!sultra!dtynan Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by... [WBY]