On 5 Jan 00 at 18:41, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>>Another thing I don't understand:
>>
>>Why do most consumers want to buy machines with WinModems? So, maybe they
>>save about $40.00 in buying a machine with an inferior modem, but they lose
>>out on the advantages of having an otherwise superior machine when the
>>computer's system resources are bogged down by the WinModem.
>>
>>And here is something else I don't understand:
>>
>>Why do most Windozing consumers think that it is best to buy a modem that is
>>advertised as "designed especially for Windows 95"? Don't most people know
>>that the best modems are those that are *not* designed especially for their
>>particular operating system? Anyone who knows what he is doing doesn't need
>>to "plug and pray".
I have been thinking about this a little, and the idea of using the
CPU reduce hardware costs is not new at all. Those on the list who
have or had a Commodore 64 may remember that there was not a UART
chip to handle communications with a modem connected on the User
Port. This chore was handled by the CPU via the OS. The native code
of the Commodore OS was even limited to 1200 baud and it was only by
rewriting this code withing a comm program that C= users were able to
advance to 2400 baud communications. I just goes to show that no bad
idea every dies. :)
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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