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In article <iZWzCDATqmWxoABj@turnpike.com>, Dave English
<DavidE@turnpike.com> writes:
> In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960326074639.18863B@itsop2>, "Daniel (Doni)
> Rosenzweig" <drosenzw@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu> writes
>>I don't know about Mr. Modem - but Boca's AT&T controllerless chipset 
>>modem comes with BOTH Windows AND DOS drivers.
> 
> Yes, I have seen that.
> 
> The Boca modem apparently comes with both Window and DOS software.  I
> think the Dynalink comes with Windows drivers only.

Do any of them come with OS/2 software? :-)

In private e-mail on this subject, someone said they thought that Mr. Modems
no longer existed, and that Microcomputer Research didn't exist either.  If
this is the case, can someone confirm it here, because it would then appear
that *someone* (Askey?) is guilty of a "passing off" offence (to say nothing
of the possible fictitious BABT approval).
 
> One of the .inf files for the Boca has a comment referring to Banzai
> linear addressing, it looks as though Banzai linear addressing would be
> an alternative to the Boca way.  I have been told that the Dynalink
> needs Banzai software.
> 
> The Dynalink documentation looks a little confusing on i/o addressing.
> It appear to refer to 03f8, 0f8 ... as well as blocks of 64 continuous
> addresses from 0100, 0180 ...  There is also a reference to 83f8, 82f8
> ..., perhaps that is a miss-print.

Yes, I noticed all that about the documentation too.

I also noticed, and this too worried me, that there was no mention of an
AT&W command in the chapter relating to commands.  Not only that, but ATZ0
and ATZ1 were both described as "Restore factory settings", as was AT&F. 
This led me to believe that it cannot save customer profiles, which makes it
less than useless for most applications.  OTOH, the next chapter, relating
to the S registers, starts out by saying that those marked with an asterisk
can be stored in either of two customer profiles with AT&W0/AT&W1, that
either of these may be restored by ATZ0/ATZ1, and that AT&Y0/AT&Y1 can be
used to select which profile is restored by ATZ; this is like normal modem
operation.  Is it that the manual is written in Taiwanglish, or did two
departments have different inputs to the documentation/design process?

I've been speaking to the UK distributor's technical support guy, who has
agreed to swap it for an external model (without the voice facilities); he
also told me that he's been talking to their MD, saying that they "must get
some internal modems that behave normally vis-a-vis COM port addressing,
because all the problems with these virtual COM ports are making his job
impossible <g>

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