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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 01:09:15 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>
Cc:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Warner's PCI Modem Driver 
Message-ID:  <200001270809.BAA43568@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:58:41 %2B0100." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001270850400.4465-100000@tricord.system.pl> 
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001270850400.4465-100000@tricord.system.pl>  

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In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001270850400.4465-100000@tricord.system.pl> Marcin Cieslak writes:
: He remained unconvinced, but this is UART which makes the modem
: supported on all good operating systems.

Yes.

: Many Winmodems are unsupported under Windows NT too.

True.

: I am not sure but I think that Winmodem is a trademark of 3Com.

Yes.  Winmodem is a trademark of USRobotics, which is now owned by
3com.

: ISA internal modems are good and safe, as long as there are
: boards with at least one ISA slot.

Yes, but if you have a 1 slot agp 5 slot pci 1 slot isa system and
need 4 modems and an ethernet controller, you either go external with
a multiport card, or get 4 pci modem, 1 pci ethernet card, 1 agp or
isa video card and you are set.

Warner



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