Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 22:28:07 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline) To: blewis@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Benjamin Lewis) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: config boca modem problem Message-ID: <m0tT0xd-0000GtC@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <199512220232.VAA19908@localhost> from "Benjamin Lewis" at Dec 21, 95 09:32:39 pm
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According to Benjamin Lewis: > > To me, the best reason to have an external modem is that if it somehow gets > all wonky, you can turn it off and reset it without turning off the > computer. I had an internal modem once that would overheat once in a while, > locking up solid. Nothing to do but shutdown. > [[ ... ]] Be nice if some entrepreneur designed an internal modem with the hooks to allow power-cycling via software. Then we could write an X application to display the state on-screen. Save a few bucks and save the extra hardware from eventually going into some landfill. > > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public access uNix
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