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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Internal modems for the Mac II
Summary: They work but they are hack...
Keywords: internal modem mac II
Message-ID: <14293@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 89 18:02:30 GMT
References: <1989Oct24.184542.10686@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1989Oct24.184542.10686@agate.berkeley.edu> rgm@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Menke) writes:
>I'm interested in information on the various internal (NuBus) modems
>available for the Macintosh II, especially how they relate to popular
>terminal programs like VersaTerm and ZTerm.
>
	I can not comment on the modems themselves (as I have not used all of 
them, and some only briefly) but the way they work is since the Macintosh OS
does not understand more than two serial ports or serial devices they must
patch the OS to think that when a program is tallking to your modem port it is
really talking to the internal modem.
	The method works but as mentioned you do lose a port in the process.
This deficiency will be corrected in the Communications Toolbox's Connection
Manager and the rerelease of drivers for these modems that support it.

Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures

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