18 Aug 2003, 20:01, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615), wrote to Wayne Chirnside:

Hi Roy.

 WC>> Seems this KFLEX standard modem was used in lots of systems. 
 WC>> Compaq, H.P., NEC, ect. in many incarnations and all crapped out 
 WC>> when V.90 was superceded.

 RJT> I've heard of KFLEX but don't recall much about it.

About six months prior to V.90 there were two different standards
"proposed".  One was "X-2", supported by US Robotics
and Texas Instrument, the other was K-Flex, supported by Rockwell and
everyone else.

As it turned out, the market wouldn't wait for a "standard" to be
defined, so everyone went into production with their own versions of either
X-2 or K-Flex, both of which were compatible with the interim 'standard'.  

Early versions of both were pure hardware, ROM controlled, and turned out
to be worthless when the standard was set.  Later versions of both were
Flash-BIOS controlled, and were upgradeable with a simple download to the
V.90 standard.


     Good luck...  M.

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