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[Rick Moen]

Quoting S. Fouzi Husaini (fouzi at falcon.csc.calpoly.edu):

> I went to an @Home demo this weekend in Hayward at a TCI office. From what I
> saw (of course all the PC's in the demo room were running win95) it seemed
> interesting but a bit pricy.

Me, I'd sooner be strapped into a chair and forced to listen to Osmond
Family recordings all day than have _TCI_ as an Internet Service Provider.
While having continuous root canals.

But that's just my opinion.  I could be wrong.  ;->

What I would want in a provider, if I didn't have it as part
of my living situation, is somebody who'd competently furnish bare
IP connectivity and a static route to a class C, and otherwise stay 
the hell out of my way.  @Home _definitely_ does not qualify.

> (I have no clue why they call it a modem, because it is NOT)

Actually, it really _does_ do modulation & demodulation.  You can 
find technical-description documents on the Web.

> What I did find was cool was when I had exhausted the technical resources of
> the Compac consultant they had on hand at the demo and they refered me to a
> tech-support line the guy I got to talk with was a LINUX user! I thought that
> was pretty cool.

These days, it's pretty routine throughout the technical segments of the
computing market.  Microsoft has lost huge amounts of mindshare among
techies in the last half-dozen years, and the lion's share of it has
gone directly to Linux.

-- 
Cheers,                Linux:  It is now safe to turn on your computer.
Rick Moen
rick (at) hugin.imat.com

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