Steven, at 14:21 on Oct 12 1996, you wrote to Paul Wankadia ...

PW>> What caused the movement away from HST?  Improvement of 
PW>> phone lines, better modulation techniques, etc.???
SA> Is say Improvement of phone lines and no need for better 
SA> modulation techniques :). Put V.34 and HST on a bad line, 
SA> V.34 gets 4800 connect and drops out and HST gets a Rock 
SA> Solid 14k4 (It was only a 14k4 HST)...

SA> (but then again, one is Full Duplex, HST is half duplex....)

Not quite, it automatically switches to the other "duplex" when
data must be returned.

David
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