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To: Moonray who wrote (15879)	6/5/1998 4:23:00 PM
From: jim bender	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Moonray, Thanks. Is this single chip implementation? - jim

To: Moonray who wrote (15879)	6/5/1998 4:59:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

>>David may come along to correct me, but as I understand it, this a cheap software modem. Steals cycles from your CPU. I've never owned one, but I think it's short of a software modem. I believe the difference is that the modem drivers and control code are stored on the PC, and are downloaded to the modem for each use. I;m almost positive that it doesn;t use the CPU for the data pump, and I don;t think the CPU does much in the way of supervisory functions either. I'll gladly stand corrected.