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echo: aust_modem
to: Bill Grimsley
from: John Piper
date: 1996-12-21 23:06:32
subject: Auslinx Tasmanian Devil 3

On Wednesday, December 18 1996, Bill Grimsley wrote to Alex Mcconnell ...

 BG> Rockwell and Lucent (sp?) Technologies will apparently be offering 56k
 BG> protocols which are purportedly 100% compatible with each other, but
 BG> (as usual), USR have rather stupidly decided to go it alone with x2,
 BG> which is compatible with absolutely nothing else whatsoever.

In that case, I see no reason to upgrade to the x2 technology it if is not
compatible with anything else.

Is USRobotics trying to form a boys' club on this one, because it certainly
seems that way. Why point is there in having x2 if nobody else supports it?

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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