On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:06:48 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > My main modem on my office computer is a Practical Peripherals 28.8 external > modem. I also have a "real" 56K, V.92/V.44 external modem that apparently is > too fast for Compuserve (at times) that I use to download larger files.
That's most peculiar! Doesn't your modem "chat" with the one at Compuserve to find a speed and protocol that they both can handle? To > use the 56K modem with DOS, I simply unplug the PP modem and plug the 56K > modem in. Of course. > However, to change modems with Windoze, I have to tell Windoze that I have a > new modem, select the new modem, reboot and hope that it will accept the new > modem (most of the time it doesn't) and then use the new modem. Of course! > Repeat a lie often enough and everyone will believe it. > "Windoze is simple and intuitive." Well strictly speaking it's not a lie. Windoze is simple because it makes it bloody hard for an ignoramous to do the wrong thing. But it also makes it even hard for someone who DOES know what he is doing to convince the O/S that what he is asking for is reasonable and correct. The damn thing is too full of automatic functions and safeguards to be of practical use to someone who wants to do the unusual. from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia "Queen City of the South" 34:55S 138:36E -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
