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From: stern@ims.alaska.edu (Pete Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: PM9600SA modem and Practical Peripherals
Summary: plus problems
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.051240.13183@ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 05:12:40 GMT
References: <1991May27.153939.435@otago.ac.nz> <1991May30.102821.445@otago.ac.nz> <2994@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
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> It's real.  It's got 9600 baud, PLUS v.42bis, but its serial connection is
> limited to 19,200.  It cooks, especially considering the price!

And the fact it suffers from a known bug in trying to talk to
other low speed modems. Seems they didn't do enough testing with
2400 baud modems before releasing it. To their credit, they have
apparently been releasing a rom a week practically, trying to
fix the problem. At least they are working on the problem unlike
Intel.




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