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echo: aust_modem
to: Lewin Edwards
from: Russell Brooks
date: 1996-08-29 07:28:02
subject: NetComm smartmodem 288

BG>> platform-dependant modems are not a stupid idea, just that when used as 

BG>> designed, they are a hell of a lot more like proper modems than crippled 

BG>> Rockwell RPIs.

 LE> No they aren't, except that you can update DSP code which you can't on 

 LE> Rockwell

 LE> functionality of a Winmodem is /provided/ by the drivers and it has /no/

 LE> functionality without them.



Which means that you can load all Rockwell code, making it a Rockwell

modem OR all USR code, making it a USR modem.

Can't do that with the Rockwell RPI.



Russell



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