In praise of winmodems.

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Robert J. Brown writes:
 > How would you write a driver that could handle 8 of these things at
 > once running full 56KBPS with compression, or running fax on all 8 at
 > the same time?  I think it would swamp my poor little feeble 200 MHz
 > Pentium CPU, so that my web server, ftp server, SMTP server, telnet
 > sessions, and various application programs would not get a chance to
 > run very well.
 > 
 > Winmodems are for personal computers, where there is only a single
 > modem per computer, and only a single user per computer.  My computer
 > routinely handles a *MUCH* bigger workload that that!

I really have no idea how well a winmodem driver would scale.  I
expect it would scale much better for fax than for 56Kbps.  Are you
saying that, because it is not likely to scale at the same rate as
separate processors per line, it will not scale at all?  I'd say that
it's premature to make *any* comparisons, since there's no winmodem
code to benchmark.

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