Assertion: hardware modem | /r/CapableOf | become expensive
Facets:
value: steadily
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Thus hardware modems supporting those standards were becoming steadily more complex and expensive themselves, not to mention the fact that several conflicting standards in the early days of the various 33.6K (V.34) and 56K protocols led to incompatibilities and the construction of modems with upgradeable firmware, which did all of the processing via a programmable DSP.