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- From: jamesm@it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: 9 Apr 1996 14:45:38 GMT
- Organization: Northern Territory University
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- G'Day Finn Higgins, you wrote:
- : >On 5 Apr 1996 08:36:17 GMT, jamesm@it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
- : >wrote:
-
- : >>I've got an example for you.. A friend of mine has a Gateway-2000 486
- : >>DX4/100 w 8Mb Ram, and a Maestro 28.8k modem.
- : >>
- : >>He starts up the comms package on Windows95 and tries to use the modem;
- : >>nothing happens. He tried changing from PULSE to TONE, again nothing
- : >>happens, no dialing, nothing.
- : >>
- : >>I plug in my Banksia 14.4k MyModem, and it works! So we swap modems and I
- : >>get a 28.8k modem, and he gets stuck with a 14.4k.
-
- : >Do a search for new hardware with the 28.8k and see what it says on
- : >his machine - that's what I'd like to know. I'd also like to know how
- : >it was set up in Win3.1.
-
- In Win 3.11, we were able to get it to acknowledge AT&D0.. however atd(t)
- did nothing :-( We decided to jump back to Win 3.11 anyway :-(
-
- : I raely love the PC approach to modems. Why the hell do you need to have a
- : driver installed for a modem for gods sake, it is just a serial device. All
- : you need to do is send commands accross the serial port. On the amiga, all
- : I had to do is plug in the modem and load the comms package (freeware), and
- : I was away as soon as I had a BBS number. On the PC we had to do a 5 minute
- : search for new hardware, after which it told us we had a different CD-ROM
- : drive from the one we had. What a pile of crap. Face it, WinTel tech is
- : outdated, slow and crap.
-
- And their TERMINAL programmes really suck.. where is TERM for the PC ??
-
- : Finn Higgins
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