On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > 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.
There are lots of applications where speeds of greater than 1200 bps aren't justified. > 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 You can buy winmodems cheap because they are cheap crap. they force the host system to do everything useful. Network quake players will keep the real modem on a PCI card going for a while yet. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
