From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 24 16:49:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D258737B873 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6D16; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:51:26 -0700 Message-ID: <397CD57D.5DE87539@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:47:09 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linh Pham Cc: FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Linh Pham wrote: > You can probably spot a lot of WinModems by looking at their > requirements. One, they require Windows. The next one is that they require > a Pentium processor (many require MMX to off-load the DSP calls use to MMX > instructions). If you look on the majority of WinModems, you will find the > lack of a DSP. Modems with almost no hardware are almost always WinModems. Even Windows users would do very well to avoid winmodems. Your CPU has better things to do than process modem signals. My friend was downloading a large file, and as he started the download I noticed that his CPU meter on his taskbar quickly spiked, while the responsiveness of Windows fell to nil. He assumed that CPU intensive downloads was normal OS behavior... David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message