Fast Eddie wrote:
>
> Soft modems:
> http://www.mot.com/MIMS/ISG/mnd/products/sm56_pci_software_modem/drivers.htm
> l
>
> The old Modem Surfr series.
> http://v90.motorola.com
>
> >Does anybody has any information on where we can find updates for Motorola
> chipsets!
> >
> >Gent
> >
> >
> >At 05:38 PM 4/20/99 -0400, Dick St.Peters wrote:
> >>> > Why call it firmware? It's basically a .VXD file that windoze uses.
> >>>
> >>> well, it's not hardware and it's a sub-set of software which is only to
> >>> drive hardware, thus 'firm'ware. I guess you could call it a driver.
> In
> >>> all, unless there is some consensus and the term that should be used, I
> >>> believe that describing it as firmware is best, as though off-loaded for
> >>> processing by the main CPU, it's the same functionality as if it were
> >>> loaded onto the modem itself.... ;)
> >>
> >>Calling it firmware is a mis-use of the term. [Soft,firm,hard]ware
> >>refer to the ease of change. Firmware is changed by reprogramming a
> >>PROM or programming a new ROM ... easier than rebuilding hardware but
> >>not as trivial as modifying software.
> >>
> >>Drivers are software. At the rate they change these days, one might
> >>even call them squishyware ...
> >>
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