augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson) writes:
> Good luck!  Winmodems are an abomination. :-)

While I agree with the sentiments of junk that doesn't come with
enough information to make it run under NetBSD, I'm not sure that the
shared memory design behind winmodems is that bad.

Traditional modems will take the sync data from the telco line,
unpacketize it, check the crc, and then stuff it back into a pipe that
looks like the traditional Intel UART from the early 80's.  I'd much
rather the modem makes the un-packetized data thats already in memory
available to the CPU.  On block copy is much preferable to an
interrupt every 150uS which is what a traditional modem running at
56kbits/sec will do.  Too bad the winmodem folks don't see the light
and make interface specs available.

-wolfgang