Re: WINMODEM driver

Dustin Marquess (jailbird@alcatraz.fdf.net)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:53:07 -0500 (CDT)


On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, christophe leroy wrote:

> Is there somewhere a driver for a internal Winmodem ISA card ?
> If not, does someone know where i can find technical informations to
> develope one ?

To put it softly, you don't want to. Winmodem is a software-based
modem, just like the other ones (PcTel modems, HSP modems, MWaves, SupraMax,
etc). Software-based modems require the system to drive the modem. Most 56k
software based modems require about 33% of a P5/133 CPU to run. These modems
are problematic (oops.. I ran Real Player, and I got hung up because it used my
CPU!), and should be avoided...

To put it another way... trash the coaster and buy a real modem.

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