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SubjectRe: First WinModem for Linux
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Followup to:  <XFMail.990805203302.jeremy@goop.org>
By author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On 05-Aug-99 Bob Lorenzini wrote:
> > needs to reject win(modems)
>
> Modems have had horrifically crappy interfaces for years, and
> "software" modems are the first step to fixing that. Having an
> in-band control interface is just junk, and should be killed ASAP.
> Doing all the modulation in software is a little heavy, but many
> "software" modems do that in a DSP (eg, Lucent), and fake the AT
> command interface in software (like the Linux ISDN drivers do now).
>
> The big problem with winmodems is that they don't have Linux drivers. Apart
> from that, I don't understand why people hate them so much.
>
> OK, sorry, off-topic. I'll stop now.
>

Note that the PC-TEL product is a DSP-less modem.

-hpa
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