Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!opal!tmpmbx!utopia!sunrise!hotte From: hotte@sunrise.in-berlin.de (Horst Laumer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: New Modems, Telebit Fails under impairments in PC Magazine tests Message-ID: Date: 17 Dec 90 07:25:17 GMT References: <1990Nov21.221114.11850@unixland.uucp> <1990Nov23.185029.2663@nstar <5791@holston.UUCP> <405@beagle.UUCP> <552@camco.Celestial. Organization: HL EDV-Beratung Lines: 30 bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes: >In <405@beagle.UUCP> chandler@beagle.UUCP (Jim Chandler) writes: >>In article <5791@holston.UUCP>, barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes: >>> In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >>> >The modem comparison article in the December 11 1990 issue of PC >>> >Magazine has stimulated some interesting discussion, particularly >>> [a bunch of stuff about PCmags tests on Telebits deleted] >>> >>> Moral of the Story: Don't base your purchasing decisions >>> entirely on PC Mag. You could find yourself burned beyond >>> recognition. >I find it difficult to believe anything I believe in the PC mags >where the editors think DOS is an operating system and BASIC a >programming language. True, true. A modem is a communication equipment, not a simple extension to a box where any programm can say "MINE are the interrupts"! But, please keep in mind that you obviously mean PC-/MS-DOS, DOS/VS* on Big Blue's mainframes isn't that bad (but I like my UNIX-box best !). --HL -- ============================================================================ Horst Laumer, Kantstrasse 107, D-1000 Berlin 12 ! Bang-Adress: Junk-Food INET: hotte@sunrise.in-berlin.de ! for Autorouters -- me -- UUCP: ..unido!fub!geminix!sunrise.in-berlin.de!hotte