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- From: isc30236@leonis.nus.sg (TAN TOT LIT)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: What's the situation with Moto Power 28.8?
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 07:08:02 GMT
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Donald L. Nash (D.Nash@utexas.edu) wrote:
- : In article <4ibb54$o94@nuscc.nus.sg>, isc30236@leonis.nus.sg (TAN TOT LIT)
- : > 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,
-
- The point on the datapump being not flashable on earlier models.
-
- : 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.
-
- I don't recall reading this post. And it don't make sense either.
-
- There is no need for 2 different version of rev 4 if that is the
- case.
-
- : 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.
-
- It make sense. At the time that the power comes out a flashable
- datapump is probably a good idea, I think even neccesary.
-
- By the time the ROM versions came out, the difference aren't that
- big anymore.
-
- : From this I
- : concluded that the software and/or hardware support in the modem necessary
- : to flash the data pump must not exist.
-
- I don't see the grounds for ur conclusion based on ur points.
-
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