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- Subject: Re: Is anyone using IBM's new Multimedia Modem?
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 05:19:35 GMT
- Organization: TGF Internet Services
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- >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.
-
- This is a problem? I look at it as a benefit. I want my Warp/WinOS2 separate
- from my DOS/Win.
-
- >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.
-
- Yes! And if it doesn't look fo interrupt conflicts! Interrupts on ISA systems
- is a real problem.
-
- >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.
-
- Well, more than a few bines, but I do understand your statements.
-
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- / Keith R. Williams
- / krw@together.net
- / Burlington Vermont
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