david, at 21:08 on Jan 30 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Class 2.0 is the official ITU recommendation, and it pisses me off no end 
BG> that very few manufacturers appear to have adopted it.  Why bother with 
BG> standards if nobody uses them?

db> Dunno;  ask the fuckwits at Netscape as they must be the geniuses judging 
db> by the stock's performance on Wall Street when it listed.

Dunno, let's wait 6 months and see what's happened by then...

db> (Detect a wee bit of animosity here?  I agree, NetComm/Rockwell/whoever 
db> really should follow the standards.  So the fuck should Netscape.)

Sour grapes perhaps?  The fact that USR and Hayes (a 51% controlling
interest of which is now owned by USR, would you believe?), as well as
AT&T and a few others were the major players in the development of V.34
and the Class 2.0 fax standard, may explain Rockwell's insistence in NOT
following the ITU specs to the letter.  It's almost like the Beta vs. VHS
debacle all over again.

Regards, Bill

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