John Becker wrote: > At 02:03 PM 1/21/2007, you wrote in part: > > > There was no good reason to distort the tests by inserting the > > specialized hardware, I believe that Pactor I will run on a sound > > card, only Pactor II and III are dependent on rare proprietary > > hardware with rare proprietary software run under a proprietary OS. > > > > I'm a bit confused here. Are you saying that you need some special OS > to run pactor 2 & 3 ?
John, It requires a SCS multimode box and a Pactor III license. OS can be whatever that communicates with the box. I have used MSDOS, Windows and Linux, so the OS is not an issue. It is just communicating a DTE with a DCE. SCS uses a form of advanced host mode that requires a suitable program to make the best use of it. It may be made to work on a DUMB telephone terminal (Telix, Procomm, etc) FBB (MSDOS, Windows and Linux), Airmai (Windows) and some terminals written for the PTC II are able to deal with advanced host mode well. On Airmail it can show transfer speed, frequency offset, retries, etc, on the computer screen. I am not familiar with the PTCIInet, but seemingly it just requires a 802.3 Ethernet link. It might work with other Unixes and MacOS... Jose, CO2JA
