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It wasn't exactly an unintentional bug - rather one company owned a patent on the technique of enforcing a guard time before and after the attention string to g
by caf 10y ago
It wasn't exactly an unintentional bug - rather one company owned a patent on the technique of enforcing a guard time before and after the attention string to go into command mode (the Hayes '302 patent). They licensed it for $1/modem, but some manufacturers felt that they couldn't afford that.
- voidz 10y agoHa, I never knew! Thanks for adding this; who would have thought my 20 year old anekdote would get a refreshment. :-)