Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:24:49 -0600 From: Alan McLean <amcl@flash.net> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI WinModem Message-ID: <19990310172449.A579@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903101746270.43830-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 05:51:14PM -0500 References: <199903101708.MAA20518@lonesome.ma.ikos.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903101746270.43830-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Richard Cownie wrote: > > > Obviously if you want to run FreeBSD you shouldn't buy stuff that only > > works with Windows Of course, but it is still a stupid idea to make hardware tied to one operating system. > > - but let's be honest and recognize this as being > > a deficiency of FreeBSD, rather than slagging off Windows and WinModems. BS, it is a monopoly plain and simple. I am not aware of *any* vendor releasing the necessary information to write a driver. How is that a deficiency of FreeBSD? And as others have already mentioned, winmodems are a brain-dead design in the extreme, pushing processing that is cheaply done in hardware onto the CPU tieing it to one operating system. -amcl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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