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. ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chu...@mat.net | communications topic, C programming, Unix and 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | carpentry. It's all in the design! Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
