federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) (12/21/90)
Since the announcement of the NeXTStation i've become pretty
interested in the machine (read: I WANT ONE NOW!). I have seen very
little of them, most of my information comes from magazines and this
newsgroup.
I recall that the first article on the NeXT published by BYTE magazine
quoted Jobs stating that, with the DSP, ``all that's needed to add a
9600 baud modem is software''. I was quite impressed. Now for the hard
part: has anybody really DONE it? Is it PD? Shareware? Commercial?
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Federico Heinz
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Federico Heinz
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From elsewhere: ...!uunet!pyramid!/lacsap@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais) (12/22/90)
In article <1318@actisb.UUCP>, federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) writes: > > I recall that the first article on the NeXT published by BYTE magazine > quoted Jobs stating that, with the DSP, ``all that's needed to add a > 9600 baud modem is software''. I was quite impressed. Now for the hard > part: has anybody really DONE it? Is it PD? Shareware? Commercial? > > Federico Heinz Well you also need a hardware interface between your telephone and your NeXT. If a low cost telephone interface for the NeXT existed (read: less than $100), then I am sure people would be hacking away V.32 modem software. So far I have not seen commercially available cheap telephone interface that reroutes the audio to either the NeXT audio lines, or DSP serial line. There is a company Sun Coast working on a pricey package (above 600$). The other route would be to convince the fax modem companies to hack the audio routing into their beasts. You can probably build your own if you are not afraid of wires... The design would need to be good so not to piss off the telephone company... Of course this assumes you have an analog line, digital ones (ISDN) are a different beast and probably worth building a NeXTbus board for, or a splitter to connect to the serial and DSP port to do the 2B+D. However I can assure you that telephone interfaces for computer workstations will become an integral part of the machines like mice, keyboards, and high resolution displays... The question is how long will it take for it to be affordable. pasc -- Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group Media Laboratory, E15-348, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311 email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (12/22/90)
In article <1318@actisb.UUCP> federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) writes: >I recall that the first article on the NeXT published by BYTE magazine >quoted Jobs stating that, with the DSP, ``all that's needed to add a >9600 baud modem is software''. I was quite impressed. Now for the hard >part: has anybody really DONE it? Is it PD? Shareware? Commercial? It took *years* for Telebit to bring a DSP implementation of V.32 to market, and they have a lot of experience with this stuff. You're not kidding when you call it "the hard part." -=EPS=-