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From: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: OBM
Message-ID: <109@tarkus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 01:57:38 GMT
References: <293@uncle.UUCP> <137@limbic.UUCP> <1020@hsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Organization: tarkus -- Calumet City, IL.
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In article <1020@hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
>In article <137@limbic.UUCP>, gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:
>> 
>> One more point of clarification -- a lot of folks have been beating the
>> OBM (on-board modem) to death on the net, as well as port tty000.  Please
>> folks, the hardware is not at fault.
>> 
>
>I think the OBM is real junk, especially coming from "the" phone
>company.

                 Blah
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>Seems like Telebit understands the 1200 baud protocol better than AT&T.

Yeah right.  The people who *wrote* the standard don't understand it.

>Why is it the non-AT&T modems are so much better than the AT&T
>modems ??

They aren't.  What you need to understand is that your hardware was
designed by Convergent, not AT&T.
-- 
John "C". Sucilla,  A silicon based life form.
       {ihnp4,chinet,ddsw1}!tarkus!jcs
  You have a better idea? Now's the time..