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Skriven 2005-09-20 11:09:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av TOM WALKER
Ärende: software for linspire
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Hello Tom - 

>>> IF I evger tale LINUX seriously as a Alterniative to
>>> windows I would do that. BUT the Real Question is "WHY"
>>> cannot LINUX work with most Except WinModems?? IS it really
>>> that hard of a task?? 

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TW> My Point in all this is IF Knoppis and Xandros casn
TW> sucessfully detect and USE a Modem WHY cannit Linspire do
TW> the same thing with the same MODEM. NO let me tel lyou.
TW> THEY DID NOT DO THEIR HOMEWORK. Something as simple as
TW> working with a standard "HARDWARE Modem" shouldn't
TW> exqactiacly be "Rocket Science" 

Managing telecommunications is not something that begining
programmers can do easilly (if at all). I've never tried
"rocket science" but based on what NASA has done lately I'm
inclined to think writing telecom software is more difficult
than "rocket science". :-) 

When I wanted to put OBERON online I had an old USR internal
modem WITH JUMPERS set to use COM4. OBERON was only coded to
use COM1 or COM2. Why? Because that was all the clique needed
to get their machines online. I asked repeatedly for the person
who wrote the 'dialer' code to add COM4 because I had never
coded in OBERON (it is both an OS and a language similar to
MODULA-2). Finally I rewrote the dialer myself and managed to
get OBERON online. It was a unique experience (the entire
desktop is the browser) but how many new Linux users are
prepared to write new code to match their hardware and then
recompile it into their installed OS? Maurice Kinal can skip
the "I would" reply - I already know he would do it in a
minute. LOL 

TW> And FORGET WinModems. I am NOT using a WinModem nor have I
TW> ever Owned one and I doubt that I ever will. 

I am using one right now. :-) 

The concept was a good one (for winmodems) the implementation
was not so very good. Years ago when new 'protocols' were being
introduced to speed up communications and people had to flash
their modems to upgrade it occurred to me that the 'protocol'
could be written as an external executable much in the way that
zmodem or any other compression protocol was being done. It
would've saved some costs, time, effort, and allowed for many
programmers to experiment (not unlike opensource does). When it
became proprietary and a closed loop that was bad hence the
hatred for winmodems (and I don't blame anyone who does hate
them as-implemented). 

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