DH>> Users always complain - they're the last stage of factory testing...:-)

db> There *is* a last stage?  I thought it merely represented only one stage in 
db> the cyclical process of evolutionary modem development and testing?  ;-)

Oh, yes.  Most definitely.  Once the next model is out, and producing
profits, patches for the previous one become rather scarce.

However, there is often a bit of work done on the new model to make SURE
that the "new" features won't fit into the old one.  CF the
wonderous v32bis M5's that "couldn't be done" - until the
prototypes accidentally leaked out into the cold watching world, and were
seen to have done it after all, regardless of the wishes of the sales
dweebs.

Regards,
Dave Hatch.

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