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To: Leonard Chua <lenc@earth.infinetconsulting.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org,
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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
Subject: Re: 56K vs X2?
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At 09:26 22.1.1997 -0800, Leonard Chua wrote:
>they own 75-80% of the modem market.  Thus, we will be compatible with 
>75-80% of the modems out there.  USR does not appear to have any plans to be
>compatible with other 56k technologies, so their 56k will only work with 
>the other 20-25% of themodems which are also USR. ....."
>
USR runs their modems off DSP's which are loaded with microcode at "boot
time". That means that if they decide to steer their direction they can
release software to make the change. This is not the case with all modems
out there.

Pete