On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Thanx a lot first of all!
>
> Anytime i CAN write something myself - i do. I can go as low as networking code
> or pseudodevice driver. But i am at loss when it comes to hardware (and within
> my scope of work etc. i doubt i will ever learn this stuff). Thats why i pleaded for
>help.
>
> I volonteer to be your first alpha-tester. I have this modem
> blaster thing. It is PCI and it has a UART. I was going to sell it
> and shell out lots of money for USRobotics 56K ISA real modem. BTW
> they call it "legacy" modem - i think the general direction is such
> that PCI will be the only kind available very soon...
This is pretty much untrue, because not all applications (industrial
applications) for modems have a PC to talk to, so it's totally
impossible for conventional modems to go away. I used to make my living
tending large banks of modems, and not all applications are 56K even,
because they are only justified if you have a very large modem pool.
I think you're panicking prematurely, Ugen. You're also checking the
very bottom of the market, and you're exaggerating (in your comment
about shelling out lot's of cash for a conventional modem) the cost of
a regular modem. Things just aren't that desperate.
It's possible the trend is in a direction I don't like, but I'll still
keep my external conventional modem. It's 33.6, not 56, which means
that my friends can dial into my system, which they can't do if it's a
56K. That's very nice sometimes.
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