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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: External modems are nonsense
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 01:29:04 GMT
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- Message-ID: <821582944snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- References: <5-62TlW4YgB@quijote.in-berlin.de> <4d1u3q$34l@bristlecone.together.net> <4d3d1e$8eq@shellx.best.com> <4d4b1r$fuk@usenety1.news.prodigy.com> <4d79jh$478@cynic.portal.ca>
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- In article <4d79jh$478@cynic.portal.ca> curt@portal.ca "Curt Sampson" writes:
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- >In article <4d4b1r$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,
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- Cheap Ethernet cards are cheap enough to dedicate one to a modem if you wish,
- there is no need to have other computers connected.
-
- >and that requires a protocol stack and an
- >application on top of that.
-
- No, just a simple communications layer in that case.
-
- >Suddenly we need to write more code
- >and we need more CPU power and memory.
-
- The overhead for transferring data over even a cheap Ethernet card is many
- times lower than with a serial port.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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