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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.