Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:43:02 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com> Cc: vev@michvhf.com, dan@wolf.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI WinModem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903101237310.46794-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <199903101708.MAA20518@lonesome.ma.ikos.com>
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Today Richard Cownie wrote:
> OK, so far the only substantive criticism of WinModems and WinPeripherals
> in general is that they only run with Windows. On the plus side these
> things tend to offer good performance at ultra-cheap prices.
"Good performance" _only_ on a lightly loaded system. If your
CPU is busy with other things it doesn't have the cycles
available to service your partial modem or partial printer.
Start a download and try to format a floppy at the same time.
Unless they've done some rewriting of their code the download
will fall apart even with a real modem.
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