Software modems

[Duston, Hal]

Walter,

Well, there is a work-in-progress at http://www.linmodems.org/

>From the front page:

<quote>
Id Software's John Carmack has posited that a linmodem may be able to 
have lower latency than a controller-ful modem. This is an issue of great 
importance to real-time gamers, as the slightest decrease in latency 
translates into a higher score. 

Russ Nelson writes: A lot of people claim that a Winmodem has no place in 
a Linux box. I disagree. There are many applications for a Winmodem if you 
stop thinking of it as a modem, and start thinking of it as a telephone 
interface: 

Think telephone emulation (put the audio card into full duplex, and talk 
   to the linmodem with it). 
Think telephone with a backspace key (use the linmodem to dial for you). 
Think smart telephone: "That line is busy. Do you want me to retry in five 
   minutes?" 
Think "voice dialling". 
Think "soft pbx". Equip enough machines in an office for all the outside 
   lines. Then do IP telephone inter-office, and go to a linmodem when you 
   need an outside line. 
Think answering machine. 
Think pager interface. Your answering machine takes the call, phones your 
   pager company and pages you). 
Think "contact database with integral dialler, and answering machine 
   recognition". 
Think "call recording with no off-hook click". 
Think message detail recorder (basically a record of all time spent on 
   the phone. Great for billing.
</quote>

Hal Duston
hald at sound.net
If Al Gore invented the internet, why is it named after George W. Bush?

Walter Dunz [Zscoundrel at netscape.net] wrote:
> 
> Hal, I LOVED the Station wagon full of CD's analogy!
> 
> I am surprised that someone hasn't written a linux driver for 
> the software modems.  The Linux OS would be a natural for this 
> technology! 
>  It would handle it much better than 'doze.
> 
> I would not necesarily want one because I much prefer an 
> external.  But that's a product of too many lockups that 
> kept the BBS down all  night!  I was REALY happy to see 
> that the cable modem was extrenal and has lights.