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To: TonyE who wrote (10444)	11/13/1997 12:49:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 77400

Interesting Tony, do you think this competitive scenario played a part in the decision of USRX to merge with 3COM, seeing the handwriting on the wall? BTW, if I'm asking woefully ignorant questions feel free to point out, admit to being highly lacking when it comes to emerging technologies, but always appreciate any input, my goal being to get a better grasp of the big picture. bp

To: TonyE who wrote (10444)	11/13/1997 2:22:00 PM
From: Lost in New York	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Allow me to answer this too.... a 'motherboard installed' modem is a certainty, but I believe it will be manufactured by Intel as part of a support chip set in the same way that parallel and serial IO is now part of the motherboard, this makes a lot of sense since a modem is just an application of a serial IO port and it makes a lot of sense to bundle a driver that can be recognized and used by built-in Windows applications such as a Explorer and hyperterminal. I wonder, a modem is a lot more than a just a chip and a connector. There are isolation components etc. What I really wonder about is voltages on the motherboard itself. Don't phone lines operate at 40+ volts and motherboards operate at +/- 8-12 volts or something like that. Even through a transformer you'd have much higher voltages present than normal. Obviously they're present on a daughter card so maybe it might not make a difference. Any electrical engineering types care to comment? Dave