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echo: aust_modem
to: Paul Edwards
from: Lewin Edwards
date: 1996-03-13 04:28:40
subject: USR Courier V34 problems

LE>> Having read those msgs, all I can say is "Jesus H.
Christ". It's a step
 LE>> worse than RPI. The host controls the datapump directly, no uC on the
 LE>> modem itself... what a goddamn NIGHTMARE of a product !
 PE> Sounds like a brilliant idea.  Let the software vendors compete

It's totally stupid, an utterly moronic idea which only a Windows user
could even consider. Just like GDI printers - you don't start to realize
what a bad purchase you've made until you actually start to use it. RPI
modems were bad enough.

 PE> much cheaper are the modems?  BFN.  Paul.

They had to give them away because nobody would buy them.

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0419320415 * 0412809805 * 0414927056

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