Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 16:57, Matt Archer wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
...
I'd echo the same thing everyone else does, but would add one piece of information I haven't seen yet: The reason a Winmodem is unlikely to work is because all of the logic to make it work isn't in the hardware; ... Which is why I call them LoseModems
[Just like most everything else with Windows.. choosing it makes you a Losers... So it should all be prefixed not with Win-, but with Lose-.
Of course, the notion of synthesizing modem signals in software on the system's main CPU has not one damn thing to do with Windows per se.
Except that only the proprieters of Lose-doze promote such stupidity... the sole purpose was to cause users' internet performance to slow to a crawl, so that the user would then be induced to buy yet another computer to do the EXACT SAME THING the previous, perfectly good computer was already doing...with, of course, yet another copy of Lose-doze.
It's just a very poor use of a general-purpose processor that has many more important things to do than waveform synthesis conforming to the (pseudo-) acoustic signaling specifications of dial-in modems.
Exactly. Which is why only the world OS-vendor out there promotes such an abhorrent practice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org