Subject: Re: USB External modems
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/05/2001 22:24:58
At 01:02 06-07-2001 -0400, you wrote:

>  Woj> ...USB winmodems are already available (everybody
>     > were waiting for them ;))
>
>What a repulsive idea.  Apparently stupid too, since any USB
>device presumably needs /some/ sort of controller in order
>to 'talk' USB.  :-(

	More than repulsive... Winmodems were bad enough, trying to do in software
what should always be done in hardware, but USB Winmodems?!

	Pardon me while I go gag myself with a spoon. That's actually preferable
to taking any Win(lose) modem seriously.


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