Geoff Armstrong wrote in a message to John Logothetis:

GA> Rockwell claim that their implementation of V.34 will be
GA> backward compatable with their V.FC, so unmodified V.FC
GA> Rockwell equiped modems will be able to talk to their V34
GA> modems. Pretty neat. It'll remain to be seen if this is the
GA> case, tho.

That's the point I'm making. Too often predictions are made in the computer
industry which never bear fruit. I'm more inclined to think that the first
batch of V.34 compliant modems will provide limited V.FC compatability, whilst
later models will do-away with V.FC compliance alltogether.

GA> As 80% of modems using V.FC use the Rockwell chipset, it
GA> looks like it'll be Ok. 

For the short term - Yes. The Long term - doubtful at best.


John.

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