On May 20, 1996 at 06:46, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

 BG> That explains the yum-cha nasties, but what about NetComm and Interlink,
 BG> both of whom have been making modems for so long now that they should be
 BG> more than capable of writing decent controller code?

Two words: staff turn-over.

Besides, I know one of the guys who used to write the controller code for
NetComm modems - I'd worked with him on programming projects before and had
seen his coding "style" .. it certainly explained some of the
wierd behaviour exhibited by NetComm modems.  ;-)

Cheers..

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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