Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:58:22 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Winmodem support |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: [SNIPPED for brevity] > > I don't think this is USR's fault, by the way. I think it's coming from > Rockwell, the manufacturer which makes the chipsets for all of the > Winmodems.
I don't think it's Rockwell. They make the chips for most all the Modems. I mistakenly referred to them as TI (Texas Instruments) in my earlier post.
I think that you will find that it's the code that runs on your ix86 that "they" are so concerned about. The whole damn modem is emulated! It is not a real modem, it is a software emulation! It costs a lot of Engineering hours to emulate a modem. The idea is to remove hardware, which has a cost, and substitute software, which is "free"! -- Pointy-haired management ideas here.
I think somebody can get an interface specification and even some stripped-down emulation software without a NDA. The interested party just needs to find the right manufacturer's representative. After all, they DO want to sell these things.
The remaining question is; "Do we want to use these things?". I don't even use Internal Modems. I don't like the idea of a phone-line lightening strike finding its way to ground through my motherboard. I'd much rather replace the modem. Yes, 20 years of running a BBS taught me this.
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