** Sabi ni Doc Pabling noong Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:49:22 +0800

> When you get an internal modem, just make sure that they are "real"
> modems and not winmodems.  For a non-technical person like me
> I can not tell for sure the difference between a winmodem, and a real
> internal modem, because they look alike to me.

I'm not sure, but maybe even the more tech-savvy can't tell the difference
either, just by looking. I myself ask to look at a copy of the manual, or maybe
even the box. If the box says the modem *requires* (emphasis mine) Windows,
it's a good bet it won't work with any other OS. That's what I did when I was
shopping for a modem some three years ago. Got myself a Diamond SupraExpress
w/c worked with *all* the OSes I had on my box at one time or another -- OS/2,
BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.

Mabuhay.
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