Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!Andreas.Nowatzyk@CMU-CS-A.ARPA From: Andreas.Nowatzyk@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: "hams" vs. "hackers" -- vote request Message-ID: <688@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 13:56:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.688 Posted: Fri Aug 3 13:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 00:47:54 EDT Lines: 10 I think that digital operations modes are fundamentaly different to analog ones, even if modulation and tranceiver have some similarities: The digital mode does not stop at the receiver: The whole range of networking, protocols, virtually error free communications, automatic message routing and the access to the attached computer systems have no analog counterpart. Digital/analog methods are as different as is the sending of this message is to using a telephone: yet both are using wires. -- Andreas DC5ZV BTW: The call sign is a German C-class license, no-code of cause.