Re: Required Reading...

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From: JR Holmes
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 00:00

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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:41:18 -0600, Tom E Arnold <tomea@execpc.com>
wrote:

>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?

OTOH, you are now locked into a particular OS that supports the
peculiar driver that is necessary to operate that modem.

Not that I can argue with this too greatly, since I have, in the past,
made exactly that same choice.   Knowing that it cut me off from
certain other choices was part of the price I paid for that discount.

-- 
JR Holmes
jrholmes@execpc.com

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Date: 1998/03/18
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