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- From: mika@atmos.washington.edu (Michael Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster Winmodem, any comments?
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 21:51:25 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) wrote:
- : In article <4j2drs$s3e@vixc.voyager.net>, <strudeau@star.net> wrote:
-
- : | You can download it from the BBS when it is available - it isn't available
- : | at this time.
-
- : As I understand it the problem is legal rather than technical, and
- : is not something which can be fixed by USR.
-
- : Of course if the country code was embedded in the modem hardware,
- : the firmware could check it and we could have one set of code for
- : the planet, with governments controling hardware rather than
- : firmware.
- : --
- : -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- : "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
- : -Dave Welch
-
- Does anyone have any more info on the future of the Winmodem 33.6
- upgrade (ie whats the problem)? Cause, if it ain't gunna happen,
- the modems going back!
-
- Thanks, Mike
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- Michael Brown Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Box 351640
- mika@atmos.washington.edu University of Washington
- (206) 543-5219 Seattle WA 98195-1640
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