Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:21:08 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Ugen Antsilevitch <ugen@xonix.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990906171848.53294D-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <199909062117.QAA49795@celery.dragondata.com>
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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-questions" in the body of the message
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