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From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: OBM
Message-ID: <3547@pitt.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 88 15:38:05 GMT
References: <293@uncle.UUCP> <137@limbic.UUCP> <1020@hsi.UUCP> <109@tarkus.UUCP>
Reply-To: hoffman@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu (Bob Hoffman)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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In article <109@tarkus.UUCP> jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla) writes:
>>Why is it the non-AT&T modems are so much better than the AT&T
>>modems ??
>
>They aren't.  What you need to understand is that your hardware was
>designed by Convergent, not AT&T.

While the whole machine may have been designed by Convergent, the
modem chip (and I quote from the hardware description document) is
an "AT&T proprietary Switched Capacitor Modem 882A single chip circuit".

	---Bob.

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Bob Hoffman, N3CVL       {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman
Pitt Computer Science    hoffman@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu