On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> I saw such a beast. The most funny thing about it it that is has an
> advertisement on it, which proclaims that it's "optimized for windows"
> (beware of the word "optimised for Z", it means meaning is "we are too
> dumb to make it work with anything but Z"), and that functions are
> supported by SW instead of HW because.... it's faster and works better! Is
> it a blatant lie to a customer or just a honest cluelessness?
or to make cheaper modems... if you compare two modems from the same
manufacturer, where one is a winmodem and the other has hardware
implementation of the modem's features, you'll see a significant price
diference for the part of the winmodem. and i don't think this is due to
economy of scale, but simply due to much cheaper costs (and perhaps also
because it's a worse device, but for most users today this is not realy a
problem - their PC has some cycles to spare).
guy
