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Re: (ASCEND) K56 and X2




On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:59:06 -0000, Paul Huish wrote:

>There was a short article in the computer press here in the UK that said
>that the Rockwell K56 consortium had agreed with 3-COM (Owners of USR/X2)
>that the common standard should be X2. This will reduce the delay agreeing
>an international standard.

who believs the press ?

>Does anyone know anything more about it?
>Are Rockwell keeping it quiet as they don't want to admit to dropping K56
>in favour of X2??

Funny, hear in Australia, the rumour is that USR is giving in and
adopting k56flex ??

>After loads of patch releases we finally seem to have a version of k56 that
>sort of works.
>Now we will have to go through more patch releases getting X2 to work on
>the MAX.
>
>Is X2 better than K56 ?  From what I had read I thought they performed
>about the same.

Not outside of the US & outside of the US it appears the acceptance
of X2 is miniscule compared to k56flex

>
>Paul
>
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