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Re: Is anyone using IBM's new Multimedia Modem?

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From: krw
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 05:19
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>I've got a MMM, and I've got mixed feelings about it. I bought it because I
>figured it'd have better OS/2 support - well, kind of. No the voice mail stuff
>is NOT OS/2, but Windows. If you don't have blue spine warp you *must* boot to
>native dos & windows to install the windows/dos support. 

  This is a problem?  I look at it as a benefit.  I want my Warp/WinOS2 separate
  from my DOS/Win.  

>The OS/2 support that
>does come with it, generally works pretty well, but is quite watered down from
>the windows support/apps that it ships with. If you have an all OS/2 system,
>that is, without windows support, you'll have to download certain replacements
>for some of the installation routines, the midi files are all transfered with
>a windows install app. The documentation sucks big time - whine and gripe,
>whine and gripe. It's a pretty neat card and can do quite a bit, and if it
>installs perfectly for you you'll like it. 

  Yes!  And if it doesn't look fo interrupt conflicts!  Interrupts on ISA systems
  is a real problem.

>But it really comes across as a
>windows piece of hardware with a few bones thrown towards OS/2. That's what's
>dissapointing about it.

  Well, more than a few bines, but I do understand your statements.

/----------------------------------------------------------
/   Keith R. Williams
/   krw@together.net
/   Burlington Vermont
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Subject: Re: Is anyone using IBM's new Multimedia Modem?
Date: 17 Mar 1996 05:19:35 GMT
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