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 Lines: 31 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