All,
Thanks to everyone for your various input and discussion
regarding my "winmodem" dilemma. Actually, it wasn't a major
problem as I do have a 'real' hardware modem that works quite
well and can use that if the winmodem doesn't work out.
I did want to experience the winmodem myself and test the
often read assertion that "winmodems are garbage" and whether
that is really true. Doing things the hard way helps me to
better appreciate the easy way.
It would seem that at this time linux interoperablity issues
for hardware based modems are much more stable and less
troublesome so for now I'll stick with the hardware modem
(a trusty USR) and keep my mind open for software based modems
in the future.
The concept of a software based modem becomes more intersting
if we take it a logical extreme. If all the components were
based entrirely in software, we wouldn't need computer hardware
at all. Now if all that software were open-source, we would have
infinite computing resources for free.
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