On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > 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. > > > > Well, he's partially true. > > We're looking at mass buying several thousand PCI modems. The cost for a > non-winmodem model is about 3x the Winmodem style. (You can buy winmodems > very cheap, since everyone is making them now. You can't buy non-winmodem's > cheap because only a few are doing it, and they now charge a premium for > this). > > Another issue is the upcoming death of ISA. Several of Intel's next chipsets > don't support ISA at all, making this a somewhat timely problem.
You're looking at this (quite naturally) from the point of view of a PC user. Not everyone is, you know, and the non-PC user market is large enough to ensure regular modems don't go away. > > Kevin > ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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
