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The version of a particular chip. Microprocessors typically have many different steppings where performance is increased or minor bugs are fixed. The steppings are usually not touted as a new release of the chip because chips are not as easily upgradeable as software. You would have to buy a whole new chip to upgrade it.
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Stepping - Eric Claiborne wrote in messagenews:telecom23.157.6@telecom-digest.org: Thank you very much for you work in these matters. On such a sensitive issue of phone/data systems we have decided that a contract with this company is not worth ANY risk. We started to get leary when the answer to every question was "YES". That is usually the trademark of a B.S. artist. With the information we read from you and other sources, we cancelled our plans with them. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That's my job here, Mr. Claiborne, to collect facts and experiences our readers have with various telecom companies, including Norvergence. I am glad our archives was useful to you. http://telecom-digest.org PAT]Pat,QUICK! Hit them up for a sponsorship!![TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That's very crass! If everyone who hadever benefitted from our archives had become a 'sponsor', I would be avery wealthy person. Not because I am so smart (I am not) but becauseof the collective wisdom to be found in this newsgroup. Anyway, I didnot come up with the Norvergence information on my own; I just serveas a large humanoid filing cabinet for all that stuff. 'Tis very true,a lot of things have to be paid for around here, not the least ofwhich is my own willingness to sit here anywhere from two to eight otten hours per day organizing the 'wisdom', dumping out the tons ofspam and virus crap which comes through, and trying to arrange therest of it in a reasonable way. I *did* mention to the Knox Nurseriesthat a sponsorship would be welcome, but the rest of it has to comefrom them. I generally however do not tie the two together; search ourfiles, then pay for it. We used to say and believe when Usenetusership and traffic was about one tenth of what it is now that thiswas a PUBLIC network for USERS. I believe we should continue that policy.Do you remember when *I* (and many others) back in the 1980's used tosay 'wait until the day comes when *everyone* is hooked up to thenet.' ? Well, we are just about getting to that point.Instead of taking such a crass direction of making (or very stronglysuggesting) that people who use our files then pay some set fee fordoing so, (gee, are there any Internet sites which do that; have acashier at the front door, etc?), I prefer just to leave it up thefriends and supporters of this Digest to look out for its (and my)welfare. Those who want to do that either use a credit card to makea payment through PayPal at http://telecom-digest.org or else theymail a gift as they find approriate to Post Office Box 50,Independence, KS 67301 and recieve my thanks. PAT]
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