Peter, at 03:26 on Jul 22 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Yep, everybody who cooked their AMD flash-ROM chips when attempting to 
BG> apply the 04/29 US/Canada SDL, that's who. 

PL> How do you (or anyone else for that matter) smoke a ROM chip by uploading 
PL> data? Just curious.

AMD supplied USR a batch of chips which had their higher registers
incorrectly flagged as read-only, and the latest SDL, being much larger
than previous versions, attempted to write to these hitherto unused
regions, which ultimately turned these modems into rather expensive
paperweights.

Regards, Bill
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