Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 11:47:00 +0100 (MET) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) Message-ID: <m0tyFzI-00000iC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <peter.827016458@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 16, 96 10:47:38 pm
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>From the keyboard of Peter Wemm:
> Mind you, you're in a great position over there compared to *.au.. Here,
> the phone company owns the NT1, so everything you connect to the S0 bus has
> to be "approved", including the software. ie: developing the software
> yourself is completely out of the question here.
The same is true in Germany. The Telekom owns the NT (which is IMHO a big
plus for various reasons), and it seems to be true that software driving
ISDN cards has to be approved - but not much people care. Besides, i don't
think it can be done at all: imagine that for every little bugfix you do
you have to re-approve the software ... impossible!
> This is partly the case here because ISDN is implemented as an "overlay"
> network, where the local exchanges do not speak ISDN at all.
This is different here, most of the exchanges are digital, so it is just a
flag in some exchange software to have a line speak ISDN or "analog" phone.
The Telekom promised to upgrade all exchnages to digital by the end of 1998.
hellmuth
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