From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 15:23:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAFFB15597 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:23:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: (qmail 15338 invoked from network); 6 Sep 1999 22:21:08 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 1999 22:21:08 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:21:08 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com To: Kevin Day Cc: Chuck Robey , Ugen Antsilevitch , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? In-Reply-To: <199909062117.QAA49795@celery.dragondata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > This is pretty much untrue, because not all applications (industrial > > applications) for modems have a PC to talk to, so it's totally > > impossible for conventional modems to go away. I used to make my living > > tending large banks of modems, and not all applications are 56K even, > > because they are only justified if you have a very large modem pool. There are lots of applications where speeds of greater than 1200 bps aren't justified. > non-winmodem model is about 3x the Winmodem style. (You can buy winmodems > very cheap, since everyone is making them now. You can't buy non-winmodem's You can buy winmodems cheap because they are cheap crap. they force the host system to do everything useful. Network quake players will keep the real modem on a PCI card going for a while yet. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message