Re: Winmodem support

Joseph Malicki (turk182@clampton.com)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 23:03:58 -0400


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Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> I don't think it's Rockwell. They make the chips for most all the
> Modems. I mistakenly referred to them as TI (Texas Instruments) in
> my earlier post.
>
> I think that you will find that it's the code that runs on your ix86
> that "they" are so concerned about. The whole damn modem is emulated!
> It is not a real modem, it is a software emulation! It costs a lot
> of Engineering hours to emulate a modem. The idea is to remove
> hardware, which has a cost, and substitute software, which is "free"!
> -- Pointy-haired management ideas here.

You have to remember that these people had the code that they wrote for
the DSPs, and just ported it to the x86... I highly doubt they started from
scratch... a Linux winmodem driver, OTOH, wouldnt have the years of
fine-tuning and bugfixes that winmodems have, as their driver code is
based on years of hardware modems...

>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson

Joseph M. Malicki

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