Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 01:08:44 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: lcremean@tidalwave.net, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Matt Edwards <insane1@geocities.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem Message-ID: <199901011708.BAA97067@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:26:12 EST." <Pine.HPP.3.96.981230102455.11992A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Lee Cremeans wrote:
>
> > This is a PCI modem...and PCI modems are all WinModems at this point, thoug
h
> > there's not really a good reason to be. The ISA PnP stuff won't gain you
> > much here.
>
> Perhaps I'm missing a technology theory here, but why take a fast(er)
> bus architecture and put a device on it that wasn't ever close to
> exceeding the old architecture?
It's all about control.... by Microsoft of course. That's what the windows
print system and winmodems etc are really all about.. Offloading the
brains into a piece of software that Microsoft controls and will never be
useable on something other than a Windows box. It's their way of making
sure it's always more expensive to run something other than windows
(including unix, OS/2, etc) and to keep a hold on the user by making sure
they cannot upgrade from windows. It's a very slick strategy.. They are
forcing the peripheral manufacturers to do their dirty work by making it
difficult to compete with the people who have submitted to microsoft
already.
Or maybe I have been forgetting to take my anti-paranoia pills.. :-]
Cheers,
-Peter
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