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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (10106)	12/3/1997 10:30:00 PM
From: Dick Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

What a strange device! Is this on topic? Glenn posted a press release "NetUSA Announces I-Phone Product - I-TALK, Talk Over the Internet" This is a very interesting device. It is connected via the parallel port, so that the user doesn't have to worry about configuring another interrupt. This means, instead, that the user will have trouble getting their printer to work right (unless you have a spare port) and the driver for Win NT will be hard to write, and will probably not be provided. It will be interesting to see if this thing sells. Most of the competing products are using a sound card, since digitizing the call doesn't seem to be that much load on the cpu. I've been arguing (mostly with coworkers, some of whom are invested in various internet phone companies) that internet phone is nonsense. It takes advantage of artificial pricing that can't hold up, and so the price advantage won't last. I keep losing the arguments. Dick