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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Liason network bridges vs. Telebit TrailBlazer Plus modems
Message-ID: <1502@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 08:22:00 GMT
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Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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I haven't said anything on this subject in a few days because I was doing
some checking.

I have heard from two different people that the Telebit REQUIRES you to
write to the EEPROMs in order to change the speed. This was offered as
justification for their doing this. THEY DO NOT WRITE TO PROMS ON ANY OTHER
MODEM, JUST THE TELEBIT.

Now, that explanation seems VERY odd to me. So sometime in the next few
days, I will fish out a telebit manual and take a look (actually, I am
hoping that a bunch of you will do this and mail to me, but who knows...)

In any event, I want to stress again that whatever they are doing, it is
NOT HARMFUL TO THE TELEBITS!!! They may or may not be doing wrong, but they
WON'T break the modem.

One thing: someone said that he thought programs that wrote to modem proms
were just like viruses. To be equally extreme, I think that that statement
was stupid. The program may be doing something wrong- even extremely
undesireable. But to put that in a class with viruses is ridiculous. If
a newspaper printed something like that, it would likely be legally
actionable.

I will follow up on this within a few days.

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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}