Randall R Schulz wrote:
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.
Which software vendor gave them their endorsement, and stamp of approval, so that the Lose-modems will only work their OS platform?
Besides, it's just another example of the ideal, perfect, infallible market in action. Vendors offer them and people buy them. Case closed.
I woudldn't be surprised if there is a hell of a lot of evidence to be found for anti-competitive practices charges in Microsoft's e-mail archives.
RRS
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