Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:52:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: kline@tera.com, jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support for 16650 Message-ID: <199609262052.NAA19879@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <m0v6MQH-0003wsC@main.statsci.com> from Scott Blachowicz at "Sep 26, 96 12:48:36 pm"
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According to Scott Blachowicz: > Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> wrote: > > > I'm guessing that 38.4 is likely. 56Kpbs would be like > > having an ISDN line. Interesting times, huh? > > Boy...between that and some other stuff floating around (ADSL? cable modems?), > it sounds like ISDN is going to be a dinosaur pretty soon? (Hey sonny! I can > remember when you had to order a special kind of phone line just to get > 128K...and saying "Wow! 9600 over a normal phone line! Look out world!") > Really. The catch is that unless the mega-telcos invest zillions in additional fiberoptic lines, all of the Joe Sixpacks who log on looking for >whatever<, it won't help to have anything faster than 14.4. There's something to be said for the good old days of maybe last year (!!) when we had the net largely to ourselves.... gary PS: Last week a commentator on NPR complained that most of the techhie/nerds/geeks wanted to keep the Internet for themselves. I thought: Yeah...so what's your point? *mumble*
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