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  1. Path: giskard.demon.co.uk!dale
  2. From: dale@giskard.demon.co.uk (Dale Shuttleworth)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
  4. Subject: Re: External modems are nonsense
  5. Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 19:40:26 GMT
  6. Organization: Dale's home Linux box.
  7. Message-ID: <DKxInE.12x@giskard.demon.co.uk>
  8. References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960102093642.11497C-100000@cpu3> <4cg61i$810_002@dialupS163.ici.net> <DKoCxH.1tF@giskard.demon.co.uk> <DKuFx1.7s9@bokonon.ussinc.com> <4csl06$81g_002@dialupS171.ici.net>
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  11.  
  12. Hi,
  13.  
  14. David Ehrens (david@pencilnet.com) wrote:
  15.  
  16. [...]
  17.  
  18. : Perhaps from DOS's point of view, but not to every OS.  And if you don't 
  19. : believe this, just check with SCO.  The reason has nothing to do with 
  20. : architecture, anyway.  Don't ask a Unix (or NT) SysAdmin to reboot the
  21. : machine just because the modem went out to lunch.  What's OK for one user
  22. : isn't so great for 100.
  23.  
  24. Of course, any modem which "goes out to lunch" is seriously broken.
  25. I concede that it is easier to replace an out to lunch moden if its an
  26. external though.
  27.  
  28.         Dale.
  29.  
  30. -- 
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  32. *  Dale Shuttleworth                                                         *
  33. *  Email: dale@giskard.demon.co.uk                                           *
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