Randall, at 14:15 on Nov 08 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> NetComm are still paying off their marble staircase then,
BG> are they? One can buy two perfectly usable Taiwanese 
BG> Rockwell 33k6 clones for that amount, and still have enough 
BG> cash left over to buy a 4X CD-ROM drive, or whatever...

RL> The "perfectly usable" taiwanese clones don't have the 
RL> Netcomm faxswitching capabilities but,

It seems that every cloud has a silver lining after all...  :)

RL> thereby negating their usefulness on a single line that is used for 
RL> data/fax/voice. Works too!!

Not sure what you're trying to say here, but with the KTX (GVC) modems, fax
Tx and Rx works just fine in both Class 1 and Class 2 modes.  However, if
you're talking about incoming call discrimination between fax, data and
voice though, that's a completely different kettle of fish.  The fax side
isn't a problem due to the CNG tones, but what about discriminating between
data and voice?   There are no tones in originate mode, so how does the
modem know whether the incoming call is data or voice?

Might be about time to standardise on CNG tones for fax, V.8 CI tones for
data, and simple, stony cold silence for voice...

Regards, Bill

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