Rod, at 14:22 on Feb 18 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> According to Rod, non-USRs DON'T write it to NVRAM at all.

RS> I've never said anything remotely like that, tho there are too many
RS> messages in this thread to conveniently check that. 

A pity, 'cos my message base for this area is only 200 deep, and the thread
started long before that.

RS> I've certainly never said that in any message in which the word NVRAM 
RS> appears.

I can't find anything specific in the last 200 messages either, so I'll
concede that I may have innocently misinterpreted something else you said
re this.

RS> They ALL have to have the speed stored in the NVRAM to use when
RS> they power up and want to send a ring, before they get any AT command.

OK, I'm happy to agree with that too, even though that speed isn't actually
physically written (saved) to NVRAM with &W.

BG> now that I know the Rockwells DON'T store the baud rate at all.

That should actually have read "DON'T *permanently* store". 

By that, I mean that if the modem is powered down with a term rate of say
57600, it will power up with the same baud rate, but if the term's rate is
then altered to say 38400, the modem should power down with the new rate
"stored" in NVRAM, and will power up the next time with 38400 as
its default baud rate, unlike the USR which has had ITS baud rate
PHYSICALLY and PERMANENTLY saved with &W (until such time as a
different rate is SAVED with &W).

Incidentally, ATI4 shows the CURRENT baud rate; ATI5 shows the PERMANENTLY
SAVED baud rate.  The distinction between these should be quite obvious.

Regards, Bill

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