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- From: JNavas@NavasGrp.com (John Navas)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: new sportster winmodem
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 18:02:15 GMT
- Organization: The Navas Group of Dublin, CA, USA
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- [Posted to comp.dcom.modems]
- curt@teleport.com (Curt...) wrote:
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- >nuge@ct.med.ge.com (James A. Nugent) wrote:
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- >> > its probably not a good idea to buy the new Sportster WINMODEM but
- >> > for the hell of it ill post the annoucement here.
- >> > the new sportster winmodem requires WINDOWS or WINDOWS
- >> > or windows 3.11
- >
- >> What a strange thing! How can you make a modem that works with a
- >> specific OS. Is it internal, using a bizarre not-serial port
- >> interface. Must be pretty unconventional. After all, I can write a
- >> program that sends out "ATZ", "ATDT5551212" on just about any computer
- >> I can think of. Did Bill Gates have anything to do with this?
-
- >I agree that it is not a good idea to buy the Sportster Si models. They are just a
- >RPI modem based on a Rockwell RPI Glue 'n Go chipset. RPI modems do not
- >have hardware data compression or error correction...you must run a windows
- >driver which performs the compression/correction.
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- The new WinModem is not RPI.
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- John mailto:JNavas@NavasGrp.com http://web.aimnet.com/~jnavas/
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