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From: jeh@dcs.simpact.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: latest Version T 2500 ?
Message-ID: <1327.26686eb3@dcs.simpact.com>
Date: 3 Jun 90 08:58:10 GMT
References: <9960@gopnbg.gopas.sub.org> <119@chicco.SUBLINK.ORG> <508@gold.UUCP>
Organization: Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
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X-Local-Date: 3 Jun 90 01:58:10 PDT

In article <508@gold.UUCP>, root@gold.UUCP (Christian Seyb) writes:
> The easiest way for Telebit (and other companies) to have many modems
> always up to date would be to post new Revisions to the net (Perhaps
> in Intel HEX Format).

Why not do what Andromeda Systems does and put the firmware in EEPROM, 
reloadable through a serial port on the card?  In the case of Andromeda's
disk controllers, you attach a modem to the serial port, let someone from
their customer service group call it, and presto, new firmware.  

This seems all the more suitable considering that Telebit is selling... 
modems.  You'd call Telebit via anon uucp; they'd send you back a file 
which you could in turn feed to the serial port to update the firmware.
Trivial.  And it'd make one HELL of a good selling point.  

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG 
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