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yours
Denis
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, ken garman wrote:
:~>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:00:26 -0400
:~>From: ken garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:~>Newsgroups: liste.cooker
:~>Subject: Re: [Cooker] About winmodem....
:~>
:~>
:~>----- Original Message -----
:~>From: "Leon Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:~>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:~>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:35 AM
:~>Subject: Re: [Cooker] About winmodem....
:~>
:~>
:~>> Meir Faraj wrote:
:~>> >>> 1) some of us (unforunatelly) have winmodems,
:~>>
:~>> >> Where do you live? I'll dig out an external 56K modem and snailmail it
:~>to
:~>> >> you if the postage ain't too steep.
:~>>
:~>> > winmodem work with mandrake 7.2?
:~>>
:~>> Probably not. Probably requires a kernel patch. AFAIK only one kind of
:~>WinModem
:~>> (maybe Lucent?) is supported. WinModems are a very bad idea. Wide
:~>high-latency
:~>> CISC processors should not be doing byte-wide frequent-interrupt I/O.
:~>That's
:~>> what dirt-cheap microcontrollers are for.
:~>>
:~>> They're an even worse idea under Windows, which is why they suck so much
:~>and NT
:~>> doesn't support them. Under 9X the modem driver often loses out in the
:~>latency
:~>> roulette (high error rates on a good line, random hangups), to say nothing
:~>of
:~>> Windows itself locking up, and NT simply can't guarantee them appropriate
:~>> service time, plus they're a reliability/security hazard - as if Windows
:~>need
:~>> more of those. Linux can't make guarantees either (except RT flavours),
:~>but it
:~>> plays roulette much better than Win9X.
:~>>
:~>> --
:~>> mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:~>> > please send info on this
:~>> Chris Brownbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
:~>> This is a four letter word comprising the letters t, h, i and s.
:~>> Be advised to always use them in that sequence.
:~>>
:~>
:~>
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