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To: Ronald M. Moore who wrote (3359)	4/18/1998 7:05:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Respond to of 9236

<< I would suspect that type of application would have some drawbacks for the average home uses. If a person has a printer and a scanner connected to the parallel port, and then adds the parallel port modem >> Oh, YEAH ... that's the principal obstacle ... interop. The IEEE1284 committee has passed the hardware spec for daisychained/muxed parallel devices and the software spec for it is still hung. The hardware spec is basically the stuff we gave to the committee three years ago. They blew off our software concept at the time and have never produced an alternative. Suffice it to say that this area is getting attention! From lots of people ... BTW, the parallel port cablemodem is not intended to be the ONLY install option available for the cable vendor, and surely there are situations in which it would be less desireable than adding a NIC (or if the PC already has a NIC ...more and more common). THe parallel port option is just another shot in the rapid adoption arsenal. We're looking for a partner to do parallel hot-pluggable xDSL with ... (or partners). Good point!