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Article #4Re: Is anyone using IBM's new Multimedia Modem?
From: krw
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 05:19
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bristlecone.together.net!usenet From: krw@together.net Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.utilities,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.os2.utilities,comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.os2.utilities,demon.tech.modems Subject: Re: Is anyone using IBM's new Multimedia Modem? Date: 17 Mar 1996 05:19:35 GMT Organization: TGF Internet Services Message-ID: <4ig7d7$m5h@bristlecone.together.net> References: <4i69gs$2a7m@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4i6j17$dbn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: krw@together.net NNTP-Posting-Host: vtr134.ramp.together.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2