Re: Required Reading...

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From: Tom E Arnold
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 00:00

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Curt Shambeau wrote:
> 
> Quite honestly, the winmodem may never work properly.  The whole
> concept behind the thing is flawed, and it was a serious black eye to
> USR for producing such a modem.  Having the computer's CPU do the
> data compression and error correction to save $10 in production costs
> was just plain ignorant.
> 
Since after all keeping up with a 56K or even 28.8K data stream is such
an overwhelming burden for my 266Mhz processor. Do I get a black eye too
for being satisfied with my Winmodem?

TEA/

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From: Tom E Arnold <tomea@execpc.com>
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Date: 1998/03/17
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