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In article <37b38d8c.84387997@news.u-net.net>, Phil Thompson
<phil@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 18:23:50 +0100, "John"
><johnca@SPAMKILLERbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>He's got a PCtel 288I HSP internal modem, which is one of these "winmodem"
>>things that utilises the computer's main processor rather than having one of
>>it's own which I never did like. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer an
>>external modem with lots of LED status lights and it's own innards - you
>>know where you stand with them. According to PCtel's website, system
>>requirements for this modem are Cyrix 6x86 @ 100MHz (he has a Cyrix 6x86
>>running at 110MHz) and 8Mb RAM (he has 32Mb).
>
>and that's just to run the modem.  Are these additive to Win95s
>requirements ?
>
>IMHO the machine is not up to running the modem and handling the large
>burden of modern operating systems / software. The chip is not powerful
>enough, though another 64 Mb of memory might help it cope.

The top 32Mb won't be cached, the Cyrix also is known to have weak
floating point performance which is probably what the soft modem is
after.  If he can find a Pentium which will work with his motherboard,
I'd recommend that.

TB

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