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- From: cewyatt@cew.com (C. E. Wyatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: What differences between a caller id cap. modem and non?
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 15:41:00 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
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- In message <4gdpqm$3riu@tigger.cc.uic.edu> - yaojun@tigger.uic.edu (John)
- write
- s:
- --
- --I was told some modems are caller id capable and some are not. I am
- --wondering the difference between the two. Are they just differ in
- --firmware and older modem can, therefore, be upgrade to have that
- --feature or they differ in hardware, or both?
- --
- --I have the same question on voice capable modem and nones.
- --
- --Any opinions? Thanx!
- --
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- Most modems would require a hardware upgrade to support Caller ID or voice.
- Some, like the USR Courier, which have a flash programable DSP, only require
- new flash code to implement these functions. Some AT&T and Motorola modems
- also have flash DSPes.
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- C. E. Wyatt
- Atlanta, Georgia
- cewyatt@cew.com
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