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echo: aust_modem
to: Lewin Edwards
from: Peter Collis
date: 1996-05-10 14:09:32
subject: USR SDL

-= Pete Replied to Lewin Edwards about: USR SDL =-

G'day Lewin

 SL> Then why did they base the Austel code on the older US code and
 SL> not the newer code that's already available? Just doesn't make

 PC> Don't know, maybe the yanks think we're a bunch of backward
 PC> halfwits

 LE> It's possible that the country-specific mods are not done
 LE> properly with conditional compile defs, and that there are
 LE> multiple versions of the sourcecode.

I originally assumed there would be one lot of source code that
contained #ifdef _061_ ... #endif etc, how stupid of me :-( 

 LE> You would NOT BELIEVE some of the unbelievably stupid things
 LE> that are done in embedded controller apps. I mean, nobody will
 LE> (normally) get the chance to look at the code, either source or
 LE> image, so people do the most amazingly hairy things back in the
 LE> r&d labs...

I've never had anything to do with embedded controller code but going
by your comments it sure sounds as you say hairy.

   -=Pete=-

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