Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!nerd From: nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: V32 will smash TB+ in a year (?) Message-ID: <1417@percival.UUCP> Date: 6 Nov 88 12:04:39 GMT References: <10805@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi) Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems Distribution: na Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR. Lines: 54 In article <10805@cup.portal.com> David@cup.portal.com (David Michael McCord) writes: >For those who responded to my previous posting, you may be interested to >know that Network World this week had an short blurb about a company that >will be offering a V.32 chip set in OEM quantities for $150/ea. a)You neglect to mention which company. b)Since when is a single source of info enough to make a major decision on? >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. See b above. This sounds like the familiar "the check is in the mail" line to me, I got bitten by this sort of forcasts before and learned from my mistakes, maybe a year from now you too will learn, probably not given your attitude. >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. Are you reading what is printed or what you wish to read? I don't see anything in this (or your previous) posting to support your claim that the PEP/HST modems are going to be replaced by the V32 standard, just a rumor that in a year a currently obsolete standard is EXPECTED to be somewhat less expensive than it is now. >David@cup.portal.com Why do these characters all seem to crawl out of portal? Obviously you did not read the responses to your previous posting. The point most here have made (and you missed) is that by using the TB+s we are all saving bucks today, in most cases enough to cover the cost of the TB+s and report a tidy savings on the side to boot. I might also re- enphasize that for several of us the TB+ is not only more efficient than the V32 stuff because we don't care for full duplex and the TB+ is the standard used on the ends our phone lines. While we have been doing what works best for us I take it you have been using older "standard" technology and wasting your company's bucks (this is beyond your salary which I judge a waste for them too), looks like the rest of us have come out ahead on this one. Most of us don't argue what we will be doing in a year, we know technology well enough not to try to forsee the "state of the art" at that time. We'll probably be going with whatever is cost effective at the time, this may not be the industry standard, but you can be sure that when we make our decisions we will look at more than "standards", factors like cost- effectiveness, reliability, etc will also be considered. -- Michael Galassi | If my opinions happen to be the same as ...!tektronix!percival!nerd | my employer's it is ONLY a coincidence, ...!sun!nosun!percival!nerd | of course coincidences OFTEN DO happen.