Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:50:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: kline@tera.com, ejs@bfd.com, nadav@barcode.co.il, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: support for 16650 Message-ID: <199609272150.OAA24226@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <m0v6jra-0003wxC@main.statsci.com> from Scott Blachowicz at "Sep 27, 96 01:50:22 pm"
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According to Scott Blachowicz: > Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> wrote: > > Maybe this change can be dropped into a -current version, > > yes? I have heard rumblings--at least 3rd- or 4th-hand-- > > that within a year the POTS modems will be screaming along > > at 57Kbps or something. Anybody else hear these rumors? > > Yup...I just saw an article in the Sept 16 1996 issue of Computerworld... > > Rockwell Semiconductor Systems is preparing a 56K bit/sec. modem chip > set -- today's top out at 33.6K bit/sec. -- that analysts said will > enable faster access to the Internet and corporate data networks from > remote sites and mobile workers' computers...enable modems to support > data transmission over regular analog lines at 56K bit/sec...But one > user questioned whether regular analog lines can handle data at 56K > bit/sec. > Well, this supports what USR said. I heard that USR will have their faster modem out RSN and sometime next year the rest of the modem mfg'ers will have theirs out. gary kline >
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