Carey Bloodworth wrote the following to David Bowerman, and I quote (in 
rt):
  DB> As for V.FC, name any other manufacturer other than USR and the
  DB> Rockwell chipset stuffers who produced modems that supported V.FC. 
 CB> Hayes.  Rockwell & Hayes were the ones who developed V.FC
Read what David wrote again Carey. Though co-developers of V.FC, Hayes was at 
the time (and still is) a Rockwell client. They quit doing their own 
development quite some time ago (just prior to Principal Engineer Toby 
Nixon's departure for the greener pastures of Redmond, Washington). 
Presently, 3COM/USR and ZyXEL are the only players in the commodity modem 
market that still "roll their own", _all_ the others are using chipset 
solutions.
   DB> Now name the company that originated v.32terbo.
 CB> AT&T. I don't remember what year, but it was definitly AT&T and
 CB> not USR or Hayes or Rockwell.  And they made their improvment
 CB> public domain, so anybody could implement it. USR made their own
 CB> modifications to it, making their version proprietary and unable to
 CB> work with other V.32terbo modems, but v.32terbo itself was done by
 CB> AT&T.
Not quite true, non-USR V.32terbo modems were just unable to attain the 
21.6Kbps signalling rate possible between two USRs, they worked quite well at 
the 16.8 and 19.2Kbps signalling rates.
Regards....
Craig
aka: cford@ix.netcom.com
   : craig.ford@2001.conchbbs.com
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