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- From: mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user)
- Subject: Re: Upgrading a ZyXEL 1496E to an E+
- Message-ID: <mckeeveb.726794358@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <mckeeveb.726729008@sfu.ca> <93Jan11.214520.19275@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:19:18 GMT
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- clau@acs.ucalgary.ca (Christopher Lau) writes:
-
- >All interesting stuff.. but none of you was listening carefully enough:
- >The point I was trying to make was that even if a hardware upgrade ISN'T
- >POSSIBLE (with/without great effort), since the DSPs are the things doing
- >most of the work, can't some of the E+ features be implemented on an E??
- >(I'm under the impression that even though the 68k parts are not running
- >the same speed in E and E+ models, the TMS32025 DSPs ARE?) In this case,
- >as long as the 68000 doesn't have to do much, we could probably even force
- >an E to do 19200 (although I don't think it will have the horsepower to
- >go up to 76800 with compression- I might be wrong, since an E is supposed to
- >be able to go up to 57600 with compression when running in 16.8 mode).
- >By the same reasoning, we SHOULD be able to put CELP on an E model as well.
- >I don't need the thing to do v.fast (although it would be nice), but some
- >of the so-called "advanced" features would be useful.
-
- Probably.
-
- Would anyone be interested in my posting a uuencoded, compressed version
- of the 5.04 E-model ROMs DECRYPTED? (you can even read the help screens
- in them)
-
- Yes, they play mean, nasty tricks on people by switching the address and
- data lines around rather than just feeding them strait into the chip.
-
- --
- Rob McKeever VE7ICJ rmckeeve@sfu.ca mckeeveb@sfu.ca 604-291-0457
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