Keith, at 19:42 on Nov 22 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Indeed, apart from the earlier S2s (and series 3 Netcomms), the vast 
BG> majority of 14k4 modems worked just fine, Rockwell-based or otherwise.  Not 
BG> so with the current crop of V.34s though.

KR> i dont remember that being the story before v 34 came out.

Apart from a couple of the very early 14k4s, such as the Series 3 NetComms,
the vast majority of modems available at that time were quite reliable WRT
connect speeds and cps rates.  The main problems related to detection of
local service tones (and still does, it would seem).

KR> i see no compelling reasons to move up either personally or
KR> professionally, it takes a hell of a lot more data than i shift to pay
KR> for v 34. even then there are other solutions, we use tymnet a lot, you
KR> pay by the packet, not by time, so the speed of the connection is
KR> irrelevent, financially.

Agreed, to a lot of people (especially those running multitaskers), V.34 is
only useful as far as wank value is concerned, but people like Poe are
saving bulk money in the long term, as the majority of their data calls are
at STD rates. I'll also agree that for purely local calls, it doesn't
really matter how long the transfer takes.

KR> so, if i have $600 i'll put it toward another 16 meg of memory, much
KR> better value imho (:

BG> Sure, no argument with that at all.  I've not long ago done the same
BG> thing, and doesn't OS/2 now scream along with 32Mb of RAM!  :)

KR> i was thinking more of photoshop, with a 400 dpi scan 128k would be
KR> useful as would a power-mac. (:

True, that would be money far better spent in your case.  Assuming of
course that you have the money to start with...

KR> ps try win-95, it runs really well in 16 megs (:

Oh bullshit, Win95 is a buggy piece of garbage which STILL crashes with
great regularity, and won't even run half of my existing apps (it refuses
to accept the drivers installed by several of my winapps), which means
having to run a concurrent copy of Win311 just for those particular
programs.  The only half good thing I can say about Win95 is that it's GUI
is starting to approach the functionality of that which OS/2 has had for
over 3 years now.  Maybe MS will get it right with the next version, but I
sure won't be holding my breath in the mean time.

KR> ... Windows secret: Add MaxGPFs=0 to your system.ini

ROFL!  Don't you wish...

Regards, Bill

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