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echo: aust_modem
to: Paul Wankadia
from: David Drummond
date: 1996-10-11 18:38:54
subject: What`s `HST` mean?

Paul, at 18:09 on Oct 07 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

PW>> So I'd go for the Courier over the V.everything then?
DD>> The Courier _IS_ the V.Everything.

PW> Oh!  So I'd buy a USR Courier V.everything then???

PW>> Has the V.34+ standard been ratified by the ITU-T yet, cuz
PW>> there sure are a lot of 33.6Kbps modems coming out now!

DD>> It was included in the V.34 specs.

PW> ???  You mean the 33.6Kbps thing was in V.34 all along???  
PW> Then why did USR call it V.34+ et al...???

Because when USR produced V.34+ 33,600, it hadn't yet been ratified by the
ITU-T.  When they ratified it, they included it in the V.34 spec.

David
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