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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: ESS Call Waiting design, also, Demon Dialer info
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Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 09:55:55 EST
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I think, though I'm not that sure, that the reason that ESS cannot
do all the neat things it has a potential to do is that the FCC
said that AT&T,et.al. were not allowed to put in computer type
operations until just recently.  With divestiture, you will most
likely begin to see many of the Gee Whiz things happening to the
phone system.  ESS is supposed to be a switch, albiet a fancy one,
and is not supposed to act like a computer.  But, as many know, it
is really a computer.  With the new era in communications just
starting, the ESS will be taking off its disgiuse and acting more
like what it really should be.
T. C. Wheeler