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echo: hs_modems
to: DAVE RAYMOND
from: RICK COLLINS
date: 1997-09-19 20:51:00
subject: Windows & Modems

On Sep 16 11:51, 1997, Dave Raymond of 1:3603/210.12 wrote:
DR> Rick,
RC>> If it's a "real" modem even Windows doesn't need a "driver".  Real
RC>> modems (that is, hardware modems, not "winmodems"), don't have
RC>> "drivers".  Period.
DR> Well, while they may not require a driver to be a functional
DR> piece of hardware, I wonder how Windows95 based communications
DR> software would function, if no modem driver was installed
DR> into Windows95.
Semantics, but the driver (comm.drv) is a "serial port driver", not a "modem" 
driver.
Rick
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