Russell, at 05:56 on Oct 14 1996, you wrote to Paul Wankadia...

PW> I wonder why they didn't go upto 33.6Kbps earlier???

RB> The reason that it is flooding the market now is that a fair
RB> percentage of the worlds modems use Rockwell chips and 
RB> rockwell have only just released a 33600 chipset.

All of the Rockwell-based 33k6 modems I've checked to date are still using
the same RC288dpi chipset as used in their 28k8 modems, so I presume that
the only difference is in the ROM controller code, which has had the
required symbol rate of 3429 added.

Regards, Bill
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