From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 14:51:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16960 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16928 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA05653; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:50:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24226; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609272150.OAA24226@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: support for 16650 In-Reply-To: from Scott Blachowicz at "Sep 27, 96 01:50:22 pm" To: scott@statsci.com Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@tera.com, ejs@bfd.com, nadav@barcode.co.il, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Scott Blachowicz: > Gary Kline 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 >