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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR "Windows Only" Internal Modem
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 03:38:43 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet6.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
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- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- David L Kindred Dave) (kindred@telesciences.com) writes:
- > I saw a big stack of US Robotics "Windows Only" internal modems at
- > CompUSA Friday. I am surprised that I haven't heard of these before!
- >
- > Does anyone have any info on these?
- >
- > What did they "leave out" to make them "Windows Only"?
-
- Amonst other things, they left out the controller (CPU). This
- modem requires that you're host CPU does all the functions normally done
- by the modems controller, which means this modem is completely unusable
- without the correct software handling the modem. The software is only
- availible for Windows (hence the name Winmodem).
-
- > Are they worth buying? Or would the extra $60 to get the "normal"
- > version be a better buy?
-
- Well, I gues that depends on whether you ever plan on using the
- modem outside of Windows or not. If so, then this modem will be useless,
- so it will obviously be worth the extra $60 for a regular modem. If you
- only plan on using the modem in windows, it might be a reasonable deal,
- although you have to remember that this modem will use up some extra CPU
- power that won't be used by normal modem, and, while I'm sure USR tested
- this modem carefully, there's always the possibility of some
- incompatabilities with some software (as there will be with any
- non-standard device).
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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