Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!telebit!root
From: root@telebit.UUCP (Super user)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Courier HST/IX
Summary: for the record, here's what it is
Keywords: 30,000 bps, USR
Message-ID: <356@telebit.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 22:11:55 GMT
References: <1414@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <1414@neoucom.UUCP>
Organization: Telebit Corporation, Cupertine, CA
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For the record:  

The HST/IX is the identical modem to the standard USR HST.

In the IX form it is shipped with a host based software package known
as Handshake Blazer, built by SST DATA Inc., Milwakee, Wis.

Handshake Blazer operates a protocol that two years ago, I helped Mike Myers,
V.P of Eng. at SST, design.   The program was named Handshake Blazer because
it was built for the Telebit TrailBlazer.  It is an excellent program and
continues to run very well with the modem it was built for.  Functionally it
is like a TERM, MLINK, or BLAST program.

USR OEMs that software from SST DATA and bundles it with an HST and walla!
the HST/IX.

You must order (separate part number) the correct version for your operating 
environment.  It is available on Fortune, 3B1/2, SCO Xenix, Interactive Unix, &
Unisys 5000/30,50,60,90.

It is not available for Sun, 3B5/15/20, AIX, Pyramid, DEC, HP, Altos, Apple,
etc, etc.  UUCP "g" is the only dial-up protocol generally distributed
with all UNIX platforms.

The program provides menu access to Unix's UUCP utility.  It in no way
assists the performance of UUCP.  UUCP performance, executed via Handshake
Blazer (HST/IX) will be identical to that with UUCP and a standard HST.

For further information I encourage you to test it, talk to USR or contact
the Telebit Corporation at telebit!modems.

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Michael Ballard                      Voice Phone:            (415) 969-3800
Unix Program Manager                 FAX:                    (415) 969-8888
Telebit Corporation                  UUCP: {uunet,ames,sun,hoptoad}!telebit!mike