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- From: profgmby@cybercomm.net (Sir Spamalot)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: What's the situation with Moto Power 28.8?
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:06:59 GMT
- Organization: Not Very Much
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- References: <4hhkb6$ctv@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <D.Nash-0503961124590001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu> <31430d82.6440175@news.hooked.net> <D.Nash-1103961040310001@slip-b-16.ots.utexas.edu> <4ibb54$o94@nuscc.nus.sg> <D.Nash-1503961058280001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu>
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- D.Nash@utexas.edu (Donald L. Nash) wrote:
-
- >In article <4ibb54$o94@nuscc.nus.sg>, isc30236@leonis.nus.sg (TAN TOT LIT)
- >wrote:
-
- >> Question, how did u come to this conclusion?
-
- >Which conclusion? I made several, all based on what I've read on
- >Motorola's Web page and what we've seen in this group from Motorola,
- >either posted directly or forwarded here by a Motorola customer. We've
- >read here that the Power's data pump is not flashable even though early
- >models were made with flash memory in the data pump. We've also seen a
- >message supposedly from a Motorola employee (although I'm not sure how
- >much credence to give this), which said that the Power design was intended
- >from the beginning to have a non-flashable data pump, and that the use of
- >flash memory there was some sort of stop-gap measure. From this I
- >concluded that the software and/or hardware support in the modem necessary
- >to flash the data pump must not exist.
-
- >As for the Power, it is advertised as having a flashable data pump. See
- >the first bulleted item on
- ><http://www.mot.com/MIMS/ISG/Products/premier336/features.html>. I can
- >only assume that if they are advertising this ability then they must
- >intend to use it.
-
- > ++Don Nash
-
- >Internet: D.Nash@utexas.edu The University of Texas System
- >THEnet: THENIC::DON Office of Telecommunication Services
-
- But the path is /blah/blah/premier336/blah!!! What's that have to do
- with a Power???
-
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- This is my theory, which is mine.
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