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echo: hs_modems
to: DAVID WEI
from: DAVID BOWERMAN
date: 1997-04-23 21:50:00
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David Wei wrote in a message to David Bowerman:
 DW>  Is it software thou? I know CL uses Rockwell chipset... 
 DB> Not sure.  In the picture of the board, it looked as if 
 DB> some TI logoed chips were being used. I'd have to guess 
 DB> that it's using one of the TI/USR chipsets.
 DW>  *NOW* that sounds interesting... I never heard of any big company
 DW> buying  TI/USR chips for modem.. (of course, USR is an exception)
 DW> Only the small  company... Now, is USR doing what Rockwell was
 DW> doing? Hummm this could be  interesting USR and Rockwell battling
 DW> it out... Maybe we will see more  modems that are Sportster priced
 DW> but have the same feature as Courier...  hummm....
I'm not totally sure about that -- I'm going by what I think the logo on the 
chips in the photograph were.  Personally, I think TI's Texas outline logo is 
unmistakeable but (covering my butt) I could be wrong.
Regards,
       David
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