On 6/07/2003 23:47, "Philip Stortz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> global village did make a modem for the duo laptops that needed a custom
> driver. both the apple stock modems and the global village modems in these
> are software based, meaning they basically have an analog to digital converter
> and a digital to analog converter and the powerbook does dsp to make things
> act like a modem, but there is no hardware modem chipset involved, nearly
> everything is done in software just like some of the cheap windows modems.
> the global village modem card doesn't work properly with the apple software
> and vice versa, and both really slow the machine down as it uses a lot of the
> processor power to listen and talk to the phone line and do the data
> conversions etc.
It's why I've never used that GBV crap.
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