On Friday, Klaus Peter Wegge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
] New on the market are socalled win-modems.
] They are internal pci-cards.
] They come with special drivers for win95-98-NT,
] but do they work with DOS and Linux? Are there any
] drivers know?
] What is the difference to a "normal" internal modem?
A "real" modem has its own microcontroller, which decompresses the
data, and performs error correction. A winmodem (or "losemodem" as
many people [including me] prefer to call them) transfers this to the
main CPU.
This will make the modem cheaper to make, but can make the computer
slower. Also they only work with W95/98 and not NT (AFAIK). A DOS
driver really isn't in the pipeline ("No-one uses DOS anymore" -
Microsoft) and the modem requires some tricks to work; Linux has
better multitasking than W9x, so virtually impossible there.
I think there might be work to make a Linux driver, but it is
probably still in alpha stage.
I say: "AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!" The price difference isn't all
that much (usually less than $20) and you'd get better performance
anyway with a real modem.
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