In praise of winmodems.

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>>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

    Gert> Hi, On Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 02:09:30PM -0000, Russell Nelson
    Gert> wrote: [..]
    >> I really have no idea how well a winmodem driver would scale.
    >> I expect it would scale much better for fax than for 56Kbps.

    Gert> That's what I would expect as well.  Half-duplex
    Gert> transmission, with max. 14400 bps.

It was my understanding that the winmodems used the host cpu for more
than just bit-banging; they used it for DSP functions also, so the
load on the cpu could get pretty heavy for even a single modem.

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