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.
