----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Straight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] About winmodem....
> I have to second that - I run an ISP and we constantly have winmodem
people
> getting disconnected, we have them cold boot and everything is fine, seems
> like stupidity to have an operating system that can't hold it's own crap
> together trying to be hardware too.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > 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.
>
