Hello John!
Saturday February 28 1998 06:38, John Aldrich wrote to John Ranger:
 JA > Hello John!
 JA > Thursday February 26 1998 14:12, John Ranger wrote to all:
 JR>> I saw one of these in a Catalog more than 2 years ago and
 JR>> nothing since then. Did these ever come to market and if
 JR>> not, why? I would guess that a modem like this using some
 JR>> of the 56 styled technology would be something, or would it
 JR>> not?
 JA > Microcom had a couple different modems that could use either
 JA > serial or paralell...serial in Dos OR Windows...Paralell was
 JA > Windows only.
pity no one told my microcom deskport fast + as for parrallel being microsfot
windows only .... again you should tell my microcom, it worked in parallel 
mode
in ms dos amd os/2, here the drivers were reall ratty beta types but they
still worked better than anything  (full public release) i saw for any
microsoft windows versions. thye (microcom) were working on a unix driver as
well, still are i think.
but you are right about the fact the project was stil born due to lack of
interest, and now with usb and more promisingly o2 coming, it might be a safe
bet to stop hoping for a frebsd driver for my deskporte fast+
ps part of the reason for the poarrallel port 'gimmick' was to get around the
'slow serial' ports, well now witht he easy availability of ns16550afn clones
allowing real operating systems to run thier serial ports at 115k2 or even 
230k
or 430k thier was no real need to persue the technology, no maatter how
'promicing'.
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
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