Re: Trade in modems and PMs

Kevin Kadow (kadokev@ripco.com)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:19:48 -0500 (CDT)

Now we know what Livingston is going to do with all those antique modems
that get traded in on the PM-3 offer:

compatibility testing!

MegaZone wrote:
> Once upon a time Luther D. Keal shaped the electrons to say...
> >33.6 sounds good, but what about some of the other long standing problems
> >such as support for crappy old modems like Winmodems, Zoltrix, etc??
>
> What fixes can be made to the old code have mostly been made. We will
> continue to try and do bug fixes for the old modems for the next few months.
> There are some more in 3.7 I believe, that came after b20.
>
> But at the same time we have new modems and modem code to focus on, and I'm
> sure there will be teething issues with 56K since it is a new technology.
>
> Frankly there is probably going to be a rocky period in the transition when
> there are half the sites on old modems and half on new, but we're trying to
> get the upgrades out as fast as we can to make it a quick transition.