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echo: hs_modems
to: RICK GRAHAM
from: JOE KOVACS
date: 1997-12-22 23:26:00
subject: Standard Agreed Upon

Hm.  We'll keep this in mind for the next round, for the 
next standard.    :-)
This jerking around, going nowhere for years, by a committee
composed of 80 strong members is bullsh*t.
Rick Graham to Allen Stone
  >  The agreement should bring much of the jockeying to an end by modem
 >  makers, who were trying to get significant
 >  portions of their technologies included in the standard in order to
 >  increase royalty payments from future sales of the standard-based modems.
 >  As it stands, Rockwell (ROK), 3Com (COMS) and Motorola (MOT), among
 >  others, decided that the long-term harm to the industry from the absence
 >  of a standard outweighed individual financial concerns, according to one
 >  industry analyst.
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