[99865] in RedHat Linux List
Re: "Winmodems" (Support in Linux)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Clow)
Tue Nov 17 11:31:40 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:30:18 +0000
From: Aaron Clow <aaronc@cmj.com>
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Zoki wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Aaron Clow wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> ->Uh oh... Looks like I'll have to get another modem, which kind of goes
> ->against the "cash-strapped" philosophy of Linux where you make a
> ->decent computer from old parts...
>
> *** Tuut, tuut, tuut...Let's not mount the barricade's right away and
> let's think...Winmodem, Winmodem, Winmodem...why would it be called a
> Winmodem?? Maybe because it *only* works with WINdows!??
Well, until last year, I thought it was FINE to get a WINmodem because all I
was USING was WINdows...
How was I to know I'd get into FreeBSD & Linux???
Call me stupid for not thinking ahead and trying to save myself $100. Modems
were the peripherals I knew the least about in the Intel hardware world...
Now, ask me why I wanted SCSI over IDE, or why I wanted to wait for the
440LX chipset at the time, and I could've told you... Winmodem vs. $160
modem? No clue... I figured it was VOICEMAIL and VOICE FAX and EFAX and
EVOICEMAIL and all kinds of other s*^t that I was never gonna use...
Aaron
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