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Re: [TenTec] Frozen display on Omni V.9

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Frozen display on Omni V.9
From: Rick Denney <rick@rickdenney.com>
Reply-to: Rick Denney <rick@rickdenney.com>,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:25:57 -0400
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Mike K9MI writes...

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought of the V.9 and V.92 as
> firmware, not software. And it sounds like the display problem is hardware.

Isn't firmware just software that's stored in a write-once, read-only
memory instead of in rewriteable random-access memory? I haven't
looked at the chip specs for the Omni V, but it seemed to me just a
programmable, read-only memory (PROM) that has its software stored via
a PROM-burner connected to a computer. New machines would use flash
RAM so it could be updated more easily. But it's still programming
rather than components executing the design.

Rick, KR9D

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