Also, the manufacturers recommend using 100+ MHz Pentiums IIRC

Matthew D. Pitts
mpitts@suite224.net

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> From: Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com>
> To: Adam Goldstein <Whitewlf@mediaone.net>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Internal Modems
> Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 4:07 PM
> 
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Adam Goldstein wrote:
> 
> > I take it that WinModems simply won't work under Linux? Is there any
way
> > 
> > around this?
> > 
> > I recently sold a nice P2/300 to someone with a lucent 56k D/F/V pci
> > modem in it... which under windows loads as an lt winmodem...  I need
to
> > 
> > get this guy up& running, and I wasn't aware of a winmodem
compatability
> > 
> > issue.. Don't wanna have him return it cause of a silly modem ;)
> > 
> > Any Thoughts?
> > 
> Get an external modem of get a modem that says it's 'DOS compatible'.
> I have always used external modems because I don't want my motherboard
> smoked during the next lightening storm (I ran a BBS for 20 years).
> 
> Winmodems (called losemodems) use your CPU to actually flip bits
> up and down. Even if there was a "driver" you would not like it
> because every phase-change of the QAM modem carrier would require your
> CPU  to extract bits, unscramble, etc.
>  
> Real modems have hardware to do this so the CPU only gets involved when
> a character or characters have been assembled.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
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> 
> 
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