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Non-Tech : Amati investors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pat mudge who wrote (30484)	2/7/1998 8:00:00 PM
From: Galirayo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

[ Chat / ADSL Stats ] Hi' Pat. Yup, you are correct. That's one of those Tear Jerkers after Amati has been or will be or could be / should be absorbed. Just a Crazy Question for you since I gave up on any Amati Solidarity. Is it All over for Amati ?? I ASSuMEd it was but .... do you have any contrary thoughts today? Thanks, Ray

To: pat mudge who wrote (30484)	2/8/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: JW@KSC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

aMUSing Articles Thanks for articles Pat and Ed! PRICE PRESSURE. Still, the phone companies have several key advantages. Cable-modem users share the cable pipe with others in their neighborhood. That's a security risk because a marginally skilled hacker could dig his way into a neighbor's computer files. Sharing a pipe also means that Net speeds drop as more people use it. ''It slows a little at peak times,'' concedes Leonard, the @Home user. Cable also may have to cede much of the business market, since most companies don't have cable-TV connections. DSL also has the advantage of being fast both in bringing data to your computer and in sending it out. More than 80% of cable modems have to send data back to the Net over sluggish phone lines. This quote just goes to show how this thread is far superior to reading the industry news. Myself, Pat and many Amatians exposed these issues in 2Q & 3Q 96. Receiving numerous arguments/debates from contraries. The article fails to mention that " More than 99.9% of consumer satellite subscribers have to send data back to the Net over sluggish phone lines, as consumers could not afford a satellite dish containing a transmitter" JW@KSC The push for standards based ADSL and ADSL-Lite will exert pressure on CAP-based vendors that are not able to transition to DMT standard based products. CAP-based ADSL chipsets are expected to hold less than 5% share of the ADSL chipset market by 2002, as opposed to 95% today. Just as I stood my ground with the issues facing Cable Modems, I also held fast to my understanding of DMT as a superior technology over that other line code, and ADSL as the Bandwidth King over competing technologies. Some may ask how JW@KSC knew the outcome 2 years in advance, and continued posting his steadfast views? JW can't explain, only that he's not an engineer's engineer. He's seen to many engineers and technicians get lost in the sauce over the years when troubleshooting a problem. They tend to fill their minds with all the intricate understanding of how a particular circuit or specific system works, one of many that make up the entire system, then focus on just this area and waste countless hours or days trying to prove to themselves and others that they were correct in their assumptions from the beginning. JW has had the ability to work along a particular line of reasoning for 30 minutes, if the faulty componet causing the problem was not found in that time, he stood back and looked at the big picture, and located the problem usually a few minutes later. Once during a annual evaluation, when he was maintaining Flight Simulators, he asked his manager why he choose make JW a shift supervisor. "Easy" was the response, "while everyone is over here working trying to locate problem, you were over in another area, fixing the problem". JW has always enjoyed troubleshooting problems, and willing to let a younger or older engineer/tech work along with him, until the person says " lets look at this over here", at which point JW would say, "you do that, I'm going to get a cup of coffee". Not willing to get caught up in their a Phase Locked Loop. Having a modest personality, I'm not tying to toot my own horn, as some may conclude, I'm just tying explain how I came to reach the conclusion early on, that ADSL and the DMT Line Code were far superior, as there maybe one or two inquiring minds that want to know. What I have really enjoyed and laughed over more during the past two years, is the aMUSING fact that some of those testosterone driven posters I have debated and unfortunately argued with during that time frame, were proven wrong not only with my common sense technical approach, but those of a woman who also had the common sense to understand WHY DSL and Why DMT were far superior. You Moneypenny had the same outlook prior to our meeting on the Motley Fool in April 1996. I raise my glass in a toast to you, and the other members of this thread (you know who you are) in recognition of accessing the complexities of bandwidth technologies and staying way ahead of the game. Though Amati now lives on in the hands of TI, the DMT MUSic still lives, as the Bandwidth Plays on. I Want My DMT................ JW@KSC