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Oh godz, not those shite winmodems. What MBAs came up with that shite idea of soft modems that would only work under Windows ?! I'll keep my trusty USR Courier
by mrlonglong 5y ago
Oh godz, not those shite winmodems. What MBAs came up with that shite idea of soft modems that would only work under Windows ?! I'll keep my trusty USR Courier 56k (originally 28k8, but upgraded a few times to V90) modem until they decommission the old copper phone lines, thank you very much !
- labcomputer 5y agoMaybe you’re being sarcastic, but the point of a soft modem was to save the cost of a DSP chip in the modem and just run the software on the host CPU in the driver. That drivers were not written for OSes other than windows was mostly a function of Window’s 95+% market share.
- mrlonglong 5y agoIt's a nice idea but Windows is most definitely not a real time operating system. Timings have to be precise or the modem signal can't be processed correctly. Under load or if the processor is under powered or there's a lack of memory all that goes out the window.
- labcomputer 5y agoWhat makes you think you need a RTOS? Windows is perfectly capable of playing and recording 8bit / 8KHz audio. > Timings have to be precise or the modem signal can't be processed correctly. Ok, and? Can you not play MP3s on Windows?
- mrlonglong 5y agoSame applies. It can sound shit.
- jcrawfordor 5y agoThese Hayes modems were very specifically not winmodems, they were fully discrete modems. Winmodems typically did not use Hayes commands at all, although drivers often provided support for them running on the host. This makes sense if you think about it - in a winmodem, modulation is performed by the host, so the only thing sent to the modem is commanding and never data.
- mrlonglong 5y agoI've also got a Hayes V92 modem so I fully get what you're saying. But winmodems were /awful/