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From: gandrews@netcom.COM (Greg Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: T2500's and touchtones
Summary: user programmability
Message-ID: <25833@netcom.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 91 03:45:37 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.143956.12385@scifi.uucp> <25354@netcom.COM> <1991Feb23.204027.113648@ramona.Cary.NC.US>
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In article <1991Feb23.204027.113648@ramona.Cary.NC.US> 
andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) writes:
>
>It would be amusing (and potentially useful, for applications like Nick's)
>if modem manufacturers started selling user-programmable models.  I'd
>imagine the firmware developers have something of this sort for developing
>the code that eventually gets burned into ROMs.
>
>I can see it now...TB-MOS ({TrailBlazer,TeleBit}-Modem Operating System).
>And before long there'd be OOMP (Object-Oriented Modem Programming).
>

That may be a nice dream for some users, but I gotta tell ya - It's a 
support tech's nightmare!  I used to work the support hotline for an MS-DOS 
comm package with a very complete programming language.  Every few days I'd
get someone who would say "My script won't work - Debug it! (all 5000 lines)".
Yikes! (sigh.  those were the days)

There are several DSP boards on the market that could be used for DTMF
decoding.  No inherent advantage in using a DSP-based modem to do the
job as far as I can see.  (heck - people already say Telebit modems are
too hard to understand!  You wanna add low-level programming?!? <grin>)

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