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- From: JNavas@NavasGrp.com (John Navas)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Why 33600?
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:16:44 GMT
- Organization: The Navas Group of Dublin, CA, USA
- Message-ID: <31791a7a.5457712@news.aimnet.com>
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- [Posted to comp.dcom.modems]
- naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote:
-
- >JNavas@NavasGrp.com (John Navas) writes:
- >
- >> The "best" current modem interface is arguably a parallel port using a
- >> special "smart" driver.
- >
- >How much CPU does this setup suck?
- >
- >I have the nagging suspicion that these parallel interfaces are nice for
- >DOS/Windows but pretty sick in an environment with an operating system.
-
- I haven't run rigorous tests, but subjectively the ZyXEL 2864 parallel port
- driver seems to work pretty well, with no noticeable interference on my
- 486DX4-100 system. I haven't checked for sure, but I assume that the driver
- is interrupt driven, and I understand that it handles multiple bytes
- (nibbles) per interrupt. Regardless, it is only available for Windows 3.x
- and 95.
-
- But I expect the new USB (Universal Serial Bus) to rapidly gain acceptance
- as the high-performance modem interface of choice.
-
- --
- Best regards,
- John mailto:JNavas@NavasGrp.com http://web.aimnet.com/~jnavas/
- 28800 Modem FAQ: http://web.aimnet.com/~jnavas/modem/faq.html
-