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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (67897)	7/15/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 164687

> Just don't call me "modem". :) William, are you revelling in ignorance or what? Even you, with your limited technical knowledge, must KNOW what "modem" means. MODULATE DEMODULATE. In other words, it can modulate a digital signal into analog to send it over the audio-based circuitry that every residential phone line uses, or it can take an incoming analog signal and demodulate it into digital data your computer's serial port can read. With ISDN, the industry started using the name "Terminal Adaptor", since it was more appropriate. Hardly any companies referred to those devices as "Modems" except US Robotics, which of course was aiming for the lower end of the market who would have no idea what a terminal adaptor was. The same thing has happened in the vernacular speech regarding DSL terminal adaptors. "DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE".. Mean anything to you? It means there is no conversion from digital to analog. There is no modulation or demodulation. There is therefore, no MODEM. No more than you'd call your ethernet hub a modem, frankly. But hey, I guess when you're not technically orientated anything that is square with blinking lights is close enough to a modem, right?