Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:03:56 +0100 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: Internal Modems |
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On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:12:30PM +0100, Olaf Titz wrote:
> > Um, did the "Win" in "WinModem" not point something out to you? ;-) > > There's too much hardware sold already which has "Win" in the name > only to attract people, like those "WinTV" cards which work perfectly > under Linux. I'd prefer to buy non-"Win" hardware but if they are the > cheapest or only around...
A couple of hardware companies have started to actually design things for WNT thus giving the three words ``designed for windows'' more meaning than just advertisment. For some hardware this means that the requirement of 64kb pages was loosenend to 4kb pages. So ``Designed for Windows'' may actually even mean something positive for the non-windows world at times. This probably also implies that NT also has some trouble with large pages ...
Ralf
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