Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Can't get out of command mode
Summary: It is difficult not to be enthusiastic
Message-ID: <837@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 20:46:26 GMT
References: <15491@onfcanim.UUCP> <15500@onfcanim.UUCP> <15503@onfcanim.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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I really hate to give out free advertising for any product, but the
Telebit Trailblazer really is in a class by itself-- especially
when the Trailblazer's features are compared against other modems
in its price catagory  (especially if you got in on the half price
deal).

I run Sys V plain vanilla uucp on my 3b1, and the Trailblazer is
really the only modem I've been able to find that is intelligent
enough to work around uucp's lack of sophistication in dealing with
modems.  The Trailblazer's s55 register is really nifty; I can use
the thing to support both dial in and dial out.

Does anybody out there know if the idosyncracies of the hayes 1200
and 2400 buad modems have been done away with in the 9600?  I've
always been puzzled that there was no decent way to control command
echoing with real Hayes modems.

The big question is which modem is going to get to be the defacto
standard.  I'd be willing to settle for the telebit, especially
since the money is spent.  I was surprised to see the ISO standards
get frozen at a pretty low level of performace.  I do agree that it
would be nice to have full rate bidirectional communication.  For
the moment most of the available protocols are really half duplex
oriented (uucp for instance).  Of course appropriate hardware would
change that eventaully.  I have used the Trailblazer to drive a
terminal at 9600 baud.  The fact that the connection is simulated
full duplex isn't all that noticable.  The vi editor does get a bit
cranky, though, dealing with the turn-around delays.

--Bill