In praise of winmodems.

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Russell Nelson writes :-

> the same rate.  Where's the big secret there?  Surely there's a
> winmodem manufacturer willing to document their hardware?  Or one
> which uses a standard chipset for which a datasheet is available?

Absolutely true that such an open approach would work wonders. But it
appears that someone (Marketing?) forbids this almost every time.

They probably think that an AND gate is super-top-secret.

One wonders if they might try to develop their own proprietary mounting
screw threads.

Take a look at the X Windows drivers for SVGA cards to see what a mess
can result from the proprietary approach.
It's surprising that the Xfree86 people could extract enough info from the
manufacturers to write the drivers.

Or look at scanners.

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