> ROFL! I love a good cynic...

JT> I'm glad I'm a pessimistic cynic. I'm never suprised and never
JT> dissapointed. 

 I like to think of myself as a pragmatist. I expect the worst but
hope for the best, but I am hardly ever pleasantly surprised.

JT> Winmodems ARE the work of the devil. I know now why they never
JT> wrote any linux drivers for them. Linux users were too smart to
JT> go for the useless shit they were flogging off called "modems".
JT> Claiming the virtues of letting your processor take some of the
JT> modem load. The bastards couldn't get the protocols right in
JT> hardware, what chance did they have in software?

 This one is called a Host Accelerated Modem (HAM). It's got its own
CPU and apparently, it does some of it and FWIN (Fucking Windows)
does the rest. I supect that the Linux driver makes the modem do it
all.

Regards,
Bob
  

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