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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: rowdy.lonestar.org!nemesis!uhclem
- From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV)
- Subject: Re: Hayes Command ATI, Product code registration?
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- Organization: The Big Blue Box
- Message-ID: <DL3sEE.5uK@nemesis.lonestar.org>
- References: <30F42D2B.41C6@sgi.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:56:37 GMT
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- Jason Thomasser (jst@sgi.com) wrote:
- [0]Can anyone point me in the right direction about where product codes
- [0]returned using the ATI command are registered? they theoretically are
- [0]unique which means there should be an industry coodinator.
-
- The only repository of anything remotely close is in Windows '95.
- A lot of modem companies don't change the firmware from what
- they got from the chip maker, so you have several different modem
- brands that all say Rockwell, or Sierra, or Cirrus, or AT&T, etc, and
- may not have the same features, functions (such as Caller ID or
- working distinctive ring detection), but according to the In strings
- they are identical.
-
- It is a problem. There is no registry run by anybody. Free enterprise
- rules. The stuff Microsoft has in Windows '95 was obtained by the
- brute force approach of threatening the modem vendors with doom and
- gloom if they didn't send some samples of their modems (and $2K US per
- model) to Microsoft for "Windows '95 certification". Many vendors
- did this for only their new or extremely popoular models. Even then,
- sometimes Windows '95 still can't figure out what you have hooked-up
- to the computer.
-
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- Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi"
- or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net | demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!"
- ^------(this is the fastest route)|"A what?"
- or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983
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