Rusty Carruth wrote:
>
> "Tricia C. Sesar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 February 2001 15:33, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> > ...
> > > I know we can do a LOT with software, but there's this little problem
> > > of getting the bits across to the PSTN 'network' that will require at
> > > least a little hardware ;-)
> >
> > PSTN doesn't use "bits". It's an analog network
>
> Sorry, imprecise use of 'bits'. Rewind and see this:
>
> know we can do a LOT with software, but there's this little problem
> of getting the pieces of info across to the PSTN 'network' that will
> require at least a little hardware ;-)
>
> Or, for more discriminating tastes:
>
> know we can do a LOT with software, but there's this little problem
> of getting the information from the digital stream into analog and off
> into to the PSTN 'network' that will require at least a little hardware ;-)
>
> rc - the foo man from choo...
>
Yes, a sound card with dublex will free up resources and processes on
our CPUs. All that is left is to tackle the compression from digital
algorithms to analog algorithms. But that is on the back burner. Why
deal with that solution when you can just plugin to someone else's
hardware that they offer for free? No, compression or CPU overhead to
worry about on any system. The part that infuriates me most about these
M$ only companies is that when you do "glean" insight into how their
program work, you realize , it seems, always that they could have ported
it to work on all systems.
Cheers,
-- Al
Cheers,
-- Al
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