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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: USR Sporster 33.6K's - The new ones have *totally* different hardware!
- Message-ID: <DMBtn8.4D@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <4ej7fq$eh7@news.isc.rit.edu> <4eu618$nae@mips.pfalz.de>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:37:56 GMT
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- Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.pfalz.de) writes:
- > ajb8886@cs.rit.edu (Alexander Brin) writes:
- >
- >> But now the "new" $149 Sporster 33.6K internals I've been seeing have a
- >> tiny little Texas Instruments chipset instead of the big NEC DSP, datapump,
- >> and Intel microcontroller.
- >
- > Well, it would be helpful if you went into some more detail on this
- > "tiny little TI chipset". I don't think that USR rewrote all their
- > firmware for a different architecture, so there'd still be an '186
- > microcontroller and a TI DSP there. Somewhere.
-
- Well, you'll have to talk to USR to get a definative answer, but
- the new Sportsters appear to be running on a specially designed chip,
- based on TIs new DSP/Risc processor in one design. You can find out a bit
- more info about these chips at the TI web site (http://www.ti.com I
- think). So, while there is still a TI DSP in there, there does not appear
- to be an '186 microcontroller in there. Also, I believe that the ATI7
- screen's reporting that this chip runs at 92mhz is NOT a bug.
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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