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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster Windows Modem
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:35:20 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <316db1dc.435878@news.insync.net>
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- gbaron@sparc.isl.net (Gilbert Baron) wrote:
-
- >The new Sportster windows modem is nice and cheap and it has flash rom
- >to update. It is plug and play and claims works ONLY with windows or
- >windows 95 communications programs. Has anyone been able to use it in
- >dos anyhow? The only reason it says no dos is the setup probably
- >requires the plug and play driver to set it up. If your BIOS is plug and
- >play or if you have the INTEL plug and play software and if that
- >software supports the modem interrupts and addresses you should be able
- >to use it in dos. I wonder if anyone has done this. It is really too
- >bad they thought it not necessary to supply the needed software for dos
- >setup. It is also too bad that they did not put flashrom in the regular
- >USR Sportster! Waiting for a chip to change sucks face big time IMHO.
-
-
- The new USR Sportster WinMODEM will not work from DOS, period.
-
- Please note the period.
-
- This means, among other things, that it is not compatible with programs
- such as DOOM.
-
- The WinMODEM works ONLY with WIN3.1, WFWG and WIN95.
-
- It does not work with Windows NT
- It does not work with DOS (or a DOS shell)
- It does not work with Unix or Unix clones
- It does not work with OS/2
- In does not work with a MACintosh
-
- It works only -IN WINDOWS- with either WIN3.1, WFWG or WIN95
-
- Period.
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