From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 17 03:34:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA07842 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 03:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA07830 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 03:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tyGgt-000I8qC; Sun, 17 Mar 96 12:32 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0tyFzI-00000iC; Sun, 17 Mar 96 11:47 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 11:47:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 16, 96 10:47:38 pm Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?