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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (9384)	11/17/1997 8:44:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

My guess is yes, probably DSP. So a soft chip. That means 3Com has been selling soft modems for over a year already. -G- I believe 11 years would be more accurate. I know I bought one of their first in 1986. It was 1200 bps. I paid for more speed than the 300 bps<VBG> I still have it too. Glenn

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (9384)	11/17/1997 8:54:00 PM
From: Pullin-GS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Yes, they have (Winmodem). Been selling "hard" modems as well (Sporterster...non-winmodem ones). The Winmodems suck. If it costs $3 more to put processing on a flash-upgradable hard modem, do it. The winmodems are dependent on the CPU, and just add another weak link to the comm chain from keyboard to line. My ISP (mindspring) currently has gone on record as to not to support the WinModem. Winmodems currently only have Windows drivers as well. Linix, OS/2, Sco, etc. will not work because software is only written for windows at the moment.