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In article <1996Mar28.151753.1@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>, Brian {Hamilton
Kelly} <tex@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk> writes
>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).

You could be right, I know nothing.

>> 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?

This doesn't suprise me.  Nov Volatile ram is just the kind of expensive
component that they will be trying to avoid.  I expect that the firmware
may save settings for as long as the driver is running in the computer
though.  In that case it is a shame that they do not store what would be
NVRAM settings in their .ini or registration database.
 
>Is it that the manual is written in Taiwanglish, or did two
>departments have different inputs to the documentation/design process?

I suspect it will have been because the manual is made by taking a
manual for a conventional modem and editing it to reflect this new style
:-)

>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);

Sorry that you have lost your voice :-^), but hope that the daa/fax
modem serves you well. 

> 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>

Thanks for your info
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