WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS!!!Another rough day tomorrow. According to the WSJ's article of February 13, 1997, Rockwell and Motorola Settled Patent Dispute and Set Modem Pact:
" Rockwell International Corp. and Motorola Inc. said they settled patent litigation involving Motorola computer-modem technology
and agreed to cooperate on an emerging generation of new, higher-speed modems. The technically separate agreements are a valuable, strategic step for Rockwell, which is lining up allies in a battle with U.S.
Robotics Corp. for dominance in new computer connections that
transmit at 56,000 digital bits a second over ordinary telephone
lines -- nearly twice as fast as most current connections.
Motorola has agreed that it will side with Rockwell, using Rockwell modem chips in its modems. As part of the technically separate settlement with Motorola, Rockwell's semiconductor systems
division will pay royalties for the use of Motorola technology in
equipment that transmits computer data at speeds up to 33,600
digital bits a second over ordinary telephone lines. That
technology, which concerns the mathematics of high-speed signal
processing, is also in part applicable to the new 56,000-bit
transmission technology.".............................
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