----- 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.
>
