Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!spdcc!eli
From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Group 3 facsimile modems
Message-ID: <762@spdcc.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 88 14:09:20 GMT
References: <265@telebit.UUCP> <1689@van-bc.UUCP> <22686@bbn.COM> <1698@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <1698@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <22686@bbn.COM> eli@BBN.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>My point is/was that PC's are great but I far prefer to multi-task. G3 and
>8088 under MS-DOS don't quite give me that solution. With an external fax
>modem and Unix I can do pretty well everything you can do in MS-DOS, without 
>impeding anything else I may have the system doing and probably a bit more.

     an 8088 is certainly underpowered for multitasking, but quick 80286s
     do the job just fine -- they have enough cpu power to make the incoming
     or outgoing fax not affect other tasks.  MS-DOS is certainly a joke...
     i developed the software using Concurrent PC-DOS, which is a real
     multitasking OS.  

     the quadram product does sound like a good one...