Subj : ET phone home
To   : mark lewis
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Fri Jan 13 2017 07:01 am

On Thu Jan-12-2017 14:13, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 ml>  On 2017 Jan 12 06:59:08, you wrote to Nick Andre:

 NA>> Not necessarily. A system crash, or more specifically a DOS program
 NA>> that just decides to give-up... does not automatically drop the
 NA>> carrier signal on a COM port unless its told to do so or a hard-reset
 NA>> is done.

 RN> It just seems to me that if the program that was using the modem
 RN> crashed, there would no reason for the modem to continue the carrier.

 ml> if the modem is internal, it may very well shut down... an external
 ml> one, on the other hand, may not... it depends on how it is
 ml> configured with the serial control lines and what happens to them
 ml> when the software or system goes down... this is one of the reasons
 ml> why i always use external modems and not internal ones... externals
 ml> i can just turn off and rest but internals have to have the machine
 ml> rebooted and maybe even hard rebooted or powered off instead of
 ml> just a soft boot...

My personal choice in the beginning was an internal modem.  I don't recall any 
problems with them to speak of, but eventually I did get a USR v.everything 
external modem and liked it just as much.


Regards,

Roger 
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