On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Greg Olszewski wrote:
> > There's a good reason that those winmodems are cheaper. They're junk.
> How so?
>
> > as hell") so there is a little hope. But personally I would never use a
> > winmodem - in my opinion the disadvantages *far* outweigh the cost savings.
>
> What are the disadvantages you see to using software-modems?
> You repeatedly complain about them, but don't actually give any examples
> of what you find wrong. Could you clarify?
As I see it, software modems are realtime tasks. No desktop operating
system I know of is realtime. This means you need to have lots of
processor power to spare, if you don't want to drop the line.
Frank
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> greg
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