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From: [e-mail] (Greg Bretting)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Sportster Windows Modem
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 12:58:02 -0500
Organization: - not one of my strong points, really...
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On 11 Apr 1996 21:58:16 GMT, [e-mail] (Anthony Hill)
wrote:

>    Due to the design, DOS software would be pretty much impossible to
>write.  I suppose they could have tried to make soem sort of FOSSIL
>driver, but that would likley take up a few hundred kb of conventional
>memory and would only work with programs that supported FOSSIL
>connections, and I'm not even sure if this much would work.

Not true - the above is _not_ an inherent limitation of controllerless
modems.  Controllerless modems can, and some do, work just fine in a DOS
window or full screen under Windows - USR (for whatever reason) simply
chose not to write the code neccessary to support it.  Not only that, but
USR is still using a TI chipset on this modem and drivers that they've
evidently written themselves - the controllerless modems that I'm familiar
with that support DOS/Windows all use AT&T chipsets, and for the most part,
AT&T code.

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