On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Shelby wrote:

: > I really wish one of these winmodem folks would break rank and release
: > programming info for their modem.  Surely one of them must be
: > interested in gaining a foothold in the Unix/Linux market.
: 
: the specs for programming the chips are sometimes available..  the
: problem is that most of them are glorified audio DAC's that you must
: supply the bitstream for and THAT is the difficualt task ..  56K stream
: en/decoding is non-trivial.  

And patented, by 3Com (formerly held by USR).

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