I presume you are aware and have tried the linmodem drivers that now exist for a number of these winmodems. My IBM X20 works with such a Linmodem driver.
WRT Windows applications, my employer is a major aerospace R&D house. On the research side Linux is being used an increasing amount especially for numerical (beowolf clusters) and experiment control applications but on the flight (spaceflight) side of the house Windows and commercial apps are well entrenched. Key applications not yet available for Linux from my personal need perspective include project management tools, CAD (we use SolidWorks) and optics design (Zemax and GLAD). I can `back of the envelope' a lot of the optical design using self built libraries running under Maple on Linux or using traditional programs I have written but the large integrated pacakges needed for the detailed finish work are missing currently. Oh and my employer does have a large projection wall with real time rendering and no I don't think anyone has used it for Doom yet :-) GaryS > Thats definately a pipe dream.. the point is this, right now, some of us > need windows for specific purposes. > > I don't want to dick around with PCMCIA and modem cards to match when my > notebook has a built in MiniPCI winmodem.. > so I use windows on it.. so that when I am away from the offices, I can get > my mail and browse..
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