Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 1999 17:01:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: First WinModem for Linux |
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On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > Woohoo! It is about time! I'm going to get rid of this damned > > real modem that I have now, and walk^H^H^H^H_RUN_ to the nearest > > store that sells PC-TEL Linmodems, and buy one immediately. > >That's short-sighted, Mike. A Linmodem makes a perfectly fine telco >interface. It takes no more CPU than a buffered UART running at >57600. See http:/linmodems.org for reasonable uses of a linmodem.
What a crock. If a Winmodem/linmodem whatever software modem did not use up a lot of CPU resources, then it would not suck so bad. If the two use the same amount of CPU, then the ones with DSP's should remove the DSP, and run just fine without the host CPU doing any more work.
Software modems are a hardware ripoff in any situation no matter how anyone explains it to me. I see them as a total ripoff FOR EVERYONE.
-- Mike A. Harris Linux advocate GNU advocate Computer Consultant Open Source advocate
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