technologiste - you don't live up to your name. ASCII is used on other computers, too, than American computers. In fact, all web pages can be transferred using 7-bit ASCII, even when they contain letters not found in the american alphabet.
I know that ISDN in USA is crap. The basic difference between USA and Europe is that:
- USA has only one analog phone standard, making it easy to use a phone everywhere.
- USA has several ISDN standards, making ISDN crap.
- Europe has many analog phone standards, making it crap to move across borders.
- Europe has one selfconfiguring ISDN standard, making an ISDN PnP everywhere.
Everybody use ISDN over here for company phone lines, and I couldn't live without mine, having 5 phone numbers but only 2 channels at almost the same price of one analog line with one phone number.
And for those 5-10% of the population that cannot get ADSL or Cable internet, ISDN with a router is a good alternative (USB modems perform fairly well too - RS232 ISDN modems perform bad with Windows). No matter where you live, you can get ISDN. And it provides 128Kbps to 2Mbps performance at a less than 30ms latency, with a BER of less than 1E-9. (U.S. ISDN only provides 112kbps or something like that - it works quite differently).
There is a world outside USA, and it's more digital than you imagine.
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