Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: ESS Call Waiting design, also, Demon Dialer info Message-ID: <595@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 09:55:55 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxa.595 Posted: Mon Mar 5 09:55:55 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 06:36:28 EST References: <5897@decwrl.UUCP>, <272@qplx.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 12 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