Subj : Re: Old Versus New - Way
To   : Bob Ackley
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Mon Aug 25 2008 11:04 pm

 -=> On 08-24-08  06:31,  Bob Ackley <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Old Versus New - Way <=-

 BA> I suspect it has to do with bandwidth.  The ordinary phone line was

Perhaps, or perhaps (if true) it has to do with the coding used by
modems to cram more bauds down the limited bandwidth.  If VOIP does not
work, it might be (guessing again) a digitization that might not
faithfully preserve the phase information needed for the coding of a
moden.

 BA> All of that said, Ray Gwinn developed a virtual modem in his SIO
 BA> package for OS/2.  It allowed you to 'dial' and connect to sites over 
 BA> the Internet, as far as
 BA> Binkley was concerned it was a dial-up connect, but it was in fact
 BA> over the Internet.  I don't know if that could be adapted to work with
 BA> VOIP technology. 

Yes, I used SIO for years with InterMail when I had my system on an OS/2
machine.  It really helped.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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