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Alan W. Frame <alan.frame@acm.org> wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar> wrote:
> []
> > For what it's worth, Global Village's faxing software (which only works
> > with GV modems) lets you print or fax without having to fiddle about.
> > If you've got a 68040 Mac, you can expect horrible crashes and disc
> > trashing if you try and use your internet connection while the GV faxing
> > software is still installed.
> 
> No problems here.
> 
> Global Village Fax 2.6.3, OT/PPP 1.0 on a Quadra 660 AV.

Well I never...  Which OS?

(I've heard of lots of people with 68040 Macs having the sort of
problems I've described, but no other sort of Mac.  Maybe it's a bug
they put in some versions of the software but not others?)

Aha!  You've got a DMA serial port, haven't you?  I bet that's the
saving feature!

> It did get a bit confused once when I was watching EuroSport on the
> (old) Apple Video Player, running Plaintalk, Megaphone, and ARA client &
> Personal server while using the old ConfigPPP, but that's not
> surprising...

Plaintalk?  I didn't know you could use that without a PPC.  But yes, I
can see the scope for problems with that lot.

Rowland.

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