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Re: Linux/Solaris/Windows on Notebook



On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, GAL Goldschmidt wrote:

> > Standard modems use standard interface (COM) and does not need
> > special drivers (Gal). I guess that I have to ask Motorola (or
> > Pelephone) whether Cellect is included in this category. Does
> > anybody know if its MNP-10 feature is hardware-only or should
> > it require a special driver?
> 
> MNP-x, V.X are all software of course, but are from the second layer
> of the OSI and the Modem run them by itself, 
> it is burned in a prom,Eprom or with the most expansive modems
> on flash.  

sorry to barge in with an off-topic message, but V.X can be the speed, 
and that is DEFINITLY a Rockwell chip change, while V.42(bis) and MNP up 
to level 7 are 2nd OSI layer and up, MNP10 concerns layer 1, and DOES 
require hardware support, as it needs to controll amplitude and frequency 
corections that are NOT controllable outside the Rockwell controller.


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