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- From: palmer@pcatsc.UUCP (Doug Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: *** what's so good about zyxel modems? ***
- Summary: ZyXEL among the first?
- Keywords: ZyXEL
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.200504.2856@pcatsc.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:05:04 GMT
- References: <WBE.93Jan18151532@crystal.bbn.com> <1993Jan19.045545.8441@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan19.045545.8441@netcom.com> wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke) writes:
- >Winston Edmond (wbe@bbn.com) wrote:
- >: * ZyXEL was one of the first vendors to come out with a V.32bis modem, so
- >: they've worked out most of the important bugs.
- >
- >Hmm, funny. We had a discussion on this point a while ago here and also
- >in the Fidonet Communications echo (recommended for modem people). As I
- >remember nobody mentioned ZyXEL among the first V.32bis modems. The ones
- >mentioned were:
- >
- >Digicom and Forval.
- >
- >Motorola also claims to be among the first with "the first complete V.32bis
- >modem".
- >
- >USR claims to be "the first V.32bis modem from a mayor manufacturer".
- >
- >Not that this is truly important, but since you mentioned it..
-
- USR was first, ZyXEL was second. Motorola's claim comes from being
- the first to implement their conception of what a "complete" implementation
- of the recommendation is.
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