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- From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: External modems are nonsense
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 19:40:33 -0800
- Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4d79jh$478@cynic.portal.ca>
- References: <5-62TlW4YgB@quijote.in-berlin.de> <4d1u3q$34l@bristlecone.together.net> <4d3d1e$8eq@shellx.best.com> <4d4b1r$fuk@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In article <4d4b1r$fuk@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>,
- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
- >
- >Of course what people miss is that we already have a fast serial
- >port, called ethernet. If people can sell an NE2000 clone for $25 at
- >a computer show, it just flat couldn't add that much to the price of
- >a modem, given that the UART they use cost something.
-
- No. But an Ethernet port isn't much use if you can't talk to other
- computers using it, and that requires a protocol stack and an
- application on top of that. Suddenly we need to write more code
- and we need more CPU power and memory.
-
- cjs
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