[pchelpers] Re: question please

Of course. Windows slows things down. DOS no longer stands for
Dead
Operating
System

Thanks for the reminder.
Scott McNay wrote:
> 
> I remember selling quite a few 486 systems with PCI.  I think they
> were
> all "newer" boards that were capable of handling 486-compatible AMD
> and
> Cyrix 586 chips.
> 
> As for the Rockwell modem, many of them need software in order to get
> full speed, MAYBE even the external ones.  They would have the NMP4
> and
> NMP% in software, not in firmware, so all error-correction and
> data-decompression would be dones AFTER the data got into the
> computer.
> Interesting idea, since you'd have compressed data going from the
> modem
> to the driver.  Nevertheless, since I'm still getting away from DOS (I
> can do some things faster in than most people dream of doing them in
> Windows), I avoid modems that need software drivers for extra speed or
> to function at all.
> 
> --Scott.

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