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freeing cpu/ram generally wasn't the motivator to get a hardware modem. winmodems required drivers that generally were only available for windows ("win"modem)
by chrsig 3y ago
freeing cpu/ram generally wasn't the motivator to get a hardware modem. winmodems required drivers that generally were only available for windows ("win"modem)
at a consumer level, the only people that ever knew or cared were people trying to run linux or a bsd. h/w modems operated over a serial port, and didn't require any special kernel support.
- bhumihang 3y ago[flagged]
- JohnBooty 3y agoat a consumer level, the only people that ever knew or cared were people trying to run linux or a bsd Lots of tech support stories in the HN replies here, and the linked Anandtech discussion, that contradict that. Yeah, winmodems were "good enough" for most. But tended to perform worse with noisy phone lines. Which were really common. Which is what the linked article talks about. Also remember that DOS online gaming was a thing for a few years. If you played Quake online in the early days, you were generally not doing it through Windows. Also I think Warcraft and all them were dos. Battle net? Kali? I dunno, that was my friend's department.
- abirch 3y agoThat's how I learned about the kernel and modules. That and getting a CD ROM to work.