Hamish, at 19:41 on Jul 25 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

HM>>> Maybe you should get USR to support common fax standards? 
HM>>> :-)

>> Perhaps everone else should support the standard.

HM> But as Dave Hatch has pointed out, what good is a standard 
HM> if nobody uses it? The EIA, ITU-TSS etc can issue standards 
HM> all they like, but if the industry has already jumped on 
HM> something else that's better, they've no chance.

Are you sugesting class 2 is better than class 2.0?

HM> Hence even if class 2.0 fax is far better than class 2, the 
HM> support among fax software and modems is minimal -- so 
HM> what's the good of it?

As in V.34 is/was better than V.FC and yet Rockwell were pouring out V.FC
modems?  Rockwell will most likely deliver class 2.0 chips when they have
exhausted their supply of the class 2 ones, as they did with the V.FC
stuff.

HM> So what I'm trying to say is that class 2 IS the standard; 
HM> class 2.0 is (at the moment) just the EIA barking up a tree.

I have class 2.0 software which appears to work extremely well (and when I
have identified/solved my adaptive answer problem, I will register it with
you :-) )

David
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