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It is on their FTP site: ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles/ ---------- > From: Stephen Hosmer <hosmer@royl.com> > To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu; Tom Franklin <tom.franklin@usa.net> > Subject: Re: IBM's Mwave Modem news > Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 6:51 PM > > Does anyone know when and where the upgrade is? > > On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 19:39:38 -0600, Tom Franklin wrote: > > >Copied from http://www3.pc.ibm.com/support/techinfo/45e6.html > > > >MWave Modem - Past, Present and Future > > > >When it first shipped, the MWave Modem supported up to 14.4K data > >rates. A free upgrade early in 1996 took it to 28.8K. Towards the end > >of 1996, a 33.6K update was released - publicly for certain Aptiva > >models and an IBM internal beta for ThinkPads. The ThinkPad upgrade > >will be released to customers soon, and all current MWave systems will > >likely support some form of 56kbps modem late in 1997 once the > >emerging PCM-based standard is ratified. > > > > > >Note: Some 56K Modems will be available before then but they will > >probably be based on extensions to current V.34 technology rather than > >PCM. > > > > > >All this is possible because, uniquely in the Modem world, the MWave > >Modem is completely software-driven. Other implementations may be > >easier to configure initially, but hardwiring a Modem's logic or > >burning code into EPROM makes speed-upgrading (and indeed bug fixing) > >difficult if not impossible. Hybrid implementations also exist in the > >marketplace (such as "WinModems"). These have some modem function - > >such as the critical Data Pump - hardwired in silicon, and use the > >main system processor to handle other functions such as compression > >and error-correction. Although this implementation is cost-effective > >and does permit upgrading/fixing the protocol functions, the maximum > >data rate is fixed and there can be considerable CPU performance > >degradation - 10% or more is likely. Not only that, one common > >implementation today (Compaq's Lucent Modem) does not offer native > >DOS, Windows NT or OS/2 support. In contact, MWave is supported on all > >popular operating systems. > > > >(snip) > > > >Copyright 1997 IBM Corporation > >last published: 1997-07-02 > > ________________________________ > Royale Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:ROYL) > Stephen Hosmer (hosmer@royl.com) > CFO > > To request a Public key send a message > with "send Public key" as subject. > > >