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- From: hildajk1@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Ken Hildabolt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 2 modems in the same computer?
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 17:11:58 GMT
- Organization: Applied Physics Laboratory / The Johns Hopkins University
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- In message <4fjmb0$njr@mips.pfalz.de> - naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian
- Weisgerb
- er) writes:
- >
- >schon@mustang.uwo.ca (schon) writes:
- >
- >> I am just wondering if anyone know if it is possible to use 2 modems
- >> connected to the same phone line and to the same server.I ask this
- >> questions cos I have 2modems and want to make full use of them!
- >
- >You can connect two modems to the same phone line, and you can connect
- >both modems to the same computer (and if you run something resembling an
- >operating system you can access both modems at the same time), but of
- >course you can't *use* both modems at the same time, so I can't see any
- >sense in this setup.
- >
- >--
- >Christian 'naddy' Weisgerber naddy@mips.pfalz.de
- > See another pointless homepage at <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/>.
-
- With two lines and two modems, no reason that I know of to not be able to use
- two modems at the same time. If your CPU is fast enough to handle the IRQ's,
- and you are using 16550's, no big deal.
-
- Ken Hildabolt hildajk1@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
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