On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 06:18 PM, Steven Brown wrote:
I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in my world My 2 Winmodems run just fine on a powermac 9500 and a G3 Desktop.
U.S. Robotics 56k external modems, no special software or drivers, just needed mac modem cables.
If they are external, they're not Winmodems.
Winmodems are software-based modems, akin to the old Geoport modems Apple used to sell.
Most of the signal processing for the modem is offloaded onto the main CPU.
+/- cranial cobwebs... I believe those were called RPI modems. "Winmodems" were internal RPI modems specifically designed and implemented for Windoze.
They were perhaps a good marketing idea, because they made for cheaper modems (and in the PC world, cheap *is* the name of the game). But it wasn't a very good technical idea; never implemented well on any platform.
Now, with today's custom ASICs and inexpensive EPROMs, we don't think twice about upgrading the firmware in our modems. Those of you that have cable modems have probably been flashed with new firmware several times over the past year or so, and never even knew it.
Ah, those were the days, when baud was baud and bps was bps! :)
- Dan.
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