No, it has happened. I think Shanghai was the first to go to 8 digit dialing. London now has it as well. It is also the reason for the increasing reliance on mandatory ten digit dialing in the states. On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Brent Harding wrote: > Wow, I thought most pbx's are dedicated boxes hooked to the phone lines. I > see their use increasing as phone numbers start running out. What's > happening to IP addresses on the net could happen to phone numbers, not > yet, but some time. > At 01:38 PM 9/10/00 +1100, you wrote: > >Hrmm actually there are drivers for winmodems. The lucent ones have drivers, > >and Fabris Bellard (of lzexe fame) is writing a software modem driver. syy > >http://www.linmodems.org/ > >I'd suggest steering clear of the winmodems because of their cpu requirement > >but they are a nice telephony option for asteriskpbx > http://www.asteriskpbx.com > >a pabx system for Linux and yes it can hook to a phone network. > > > >Regards, Kerry. > >On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:58:30PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > >> If you had one, how would one even know how it works? The same thing > >> happens with winmodems, nobody's gotten a driver made for many of them, yet > >> yet they're in big supply. > >> At 08:56 AM 9/9/00 -0400, you wrote: > >> >"Frank J. Carmickle" <frankiec at braille.uwo.ca> writes: > >> > > >> >> By the way Reiser Janina said she was getting one. She was gong to > get in > >> >> touch with them to see about getting you one for writing a driver. > >> > > >> >I have spoken with the TrippleTalk folks a couple of times but they > >> >have never actually managed to send me one. Either they are really, > >> >really busy, or things aren't what they appear to be. > >> > > >> >> Anybody else interested in writing the tripple talk driver. I think > that > >> >> all of us who know Kirk know that he hates writing drivers. > >> > > >> >I don't mind writing it, but you have to have one before you can do > >> >that. So far, it's vaporware. > >> > > >> > Kirk > >> > > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >Speakup mailing list > >> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > >-- > >-- > >Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org > >Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au > >ICQ UIN: 8226547 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net
