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- From: m-corn@uiuc.edu (Mike Corn)
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- Subject: Is anyone using IBM's new Multimedia Modem?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:36:39 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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- In message <4i69gs$2a7m@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> - Dlfulle@IBM.NET (David
- Fuller)13 Mar 1996 10:54:20 GMT writes:
- :>
- :>In message - Dlfulle@IBM.NET (David Fuller) writes:
- :>:>
- :>:>I would like to know if the voice mail software that comes with IBM's mew
- :>:>multimedia modem is OS/2 native. Also, how do you like it. I am
- :>considering
- :>:>it, but if I have to buy new software for it to work under OS/2 I will buy
- a
- :>:>cheaper modem.
- :>:> IbM is not real clear about the software. Thet say that it works under
- :>OS/2,
- :>:>but not whether it is native to OS/2 or if you have to run ti under
- WIN/OS2.
- :>
- :>:>
- :>:>Thanks
- :>:>
- :>:>
- :>:>Dave
- :>:>
- :>
- :>
- :>
- :>
-
-
- I've got a MMM, and I've got mixed feelings about it. I bought it because I
- figured it'd have better OS/2 support - well, kind of. No the voice mail stuff
- is NOT OS/2, but Windows. If you don't have blue spine warp you *must* boot to
- native dos & windows to install the windows/dos support. The OS/2 support that
- does come with it, generally works pretty well, but is quite watered down from
- the windows support/apps that it ships with. If you have an all OS/2 system,
- that is, without windows support, you'll have to download certain replacements
- for some of the installation routines, the midi files are all transfered with
- a windows install app. The documentation sucks big time - whine and gripe,
- whine and gripe. It's a pretty neat card and can do quite a bit, and if it
- installs perfectly for you you'll like it. But it really comes across as a
- windows piece of hardware with a few bones thrown towards OS/2. That's what's
- dissapointing about it.
-
- Mike
-
-
- ------------------
- Mike Corn
- m-corn@uiuc.edu
- My alien abductors are making me type this.
-
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