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To: Mike Peterson who wrote (7831)	1/10/1997 10:37:00 PM
From: Mark Cobey	of 18024

Mike: " CPQ is announcing MMX machines with non-MMX modems for a few reasons: 1. MMX modems are still in the development stages (MOT and a company called PC-TEL "I think" are somewhat close)." Motorola, PCTel and Smartlink (an Israeli company) is doing host based modems. " 2. MMX modems will take a substantial amount of the computer processor (I doubt that you could run a full featured modem [V.34, DSVD, speaker phone, Telephony etc.] without bringing the processor to its knees)." It probably will use 60Mhz for V.34; another 50 Mhz for DSVD; the acoustic echo cancellation of speaker phone will take another 40 Mhz. This adds to 150Mhz + of the MMX. This will indeed bring the processor to its knees. " 3. Including an MMX modem (wired in) on a machine may very well obsolete the machine before it's time. This is a theoretical scenario... If a modem manufacturer comes out with a new major feature that cannot be flashed onto a unit (a hardware upgrade) that is incredibly desireable then the manufaturers would have to figure out what to do with their outdated inventory of "hardwired" machines. With a regular internal modem it is very easy to pull those units out and replace them with the new and improved units, then have a fire sale on the outdated modems." Most MMX modem is a software with the codec chip, DAA and RJ-11 phone jack. The MMX HSP modem can be downloaded pretty easily. Therefore it is a real "downlaodable" modem. The problem is not "downloadable". The problem now is that it is NOT GOOD enough. "I think MMX is something that will eventually become mainstream, but it is still a ways off." I agree. But the problem is that MMX modem will be always cheaper than any other type of modem. But it always will use some horsepower of the CPU processor. Mark

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