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From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Where is modem progress?
Summary: All V.32 do not use Rockwell chips
Keywords: V.32
Message-ID: <753@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 16:59:01 GMT
References: <78700004@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <6977@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: sfsun!hsfmsh!mhyman@sun.com (Marco S. Hyman)
Organization: SoftCom, Inc. San Francisco
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In article <6977@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
> Implementations are also not particularly cheap at this point.  A lot
> of these modems are using DSP chips of one sort or another - all of the
> V.32 modems are currently using the same Rockwell DSP chipset, which
> being single sourced, isn't immediately subject to price competition.

Not true.  Several of the V.32 modems out there pre-date the Rockwell V.32
chipset. Check out the Codec, NEC, UDS, and Hayes V.32 entries for example.  

--marc
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//Marco S. Hyman
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