[99681] in RedHat Linux List
Re: WinModems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Mon Nov 16 15:10:55 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:05:40 -0000
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Well.. it's like this... if it's a WinModem.. why should it be supported
under Linux?
WinModems are like.. run mostly by software (communist things, really)
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Monday, November 16, 1998 6:45 PM
Subject: re: WinModems
>I belive WinModem support would be nice, but it's doubtful that it will
>happen soon, if ever. Somebody interested in writing a driver is
>probably savvy enough not to have a WinModem in the first place (then
>again, it takes just one person...). It's too bad, though, for the
>suckers out there who got stuck with WinModems when they bought their
>computers at the local superstores. They may have developed some
>interest in an OSOS like Linux, but they have to spend a C or two to get
>it working, and this on what they reckoned to be a pretty generic
>cookie-cutter-type PC (is there such a thing?).
>
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