DH> There are NVRAM types offering a write life of 5000 or so.  These are 
DH> fairly elderly, and by now probably relatively cheap.  (Translate = better 
DH> profits for the gougers.  We are beginning to know who those are.)
DH> these have made it into modems as yet.  There was, at one time, a model or 
DH> two using battery backed CMOS RAM to get around this limitation.

Assuming you count NetComm under the heading of gougers, and I think that's
who you were referring to, how do your reconcile that with the fact that
the SmartModems since God-knows-when (maybe the AutoModems too, I don't
remember) have used CMOS backed-up RAM?

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0412809805 * http://www.zws.com/
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