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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 20:21, Matt Archer wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > ...
>
> > 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.

Promotes? It's the hardware vendors who sell the things and write the 
drivers for them. Besides, it's just another example of the ideal, 
perfect, infallible market in action. Vendors offer them and people buy 
them. Case closed.


RRS
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