Re: Help Transporter _modem_

[spectre@tlp.apana.org.au (Anthony Adverse)]

JohnJ76@aol.com writes:

>   
> Hello:
>   
> 	Please allow me to take a few moments of your time and thank those that have
> been so willing to give advice, comment, and for having encourage me
> regarding the dilemma I have encountered with high speed modem transmissions
> with AE's PC Transporter.  Thanks!  I would also like to make a few comments
> to some of those people:
>   
>   > Kennieth Witkin <kwitkin@sytex.com> writes in part:
>   > I purchased a copy of Modem Doctor, an MS-DOS
>   > telecommunications diagnostic program.  I discovered that
>   > my PC Transporter communications chip will not work above
>   > 2400 bps without significant degradation in the
>   > telecommunications link.

I don't know enough about the PC transporter to make any decent comments,
if the serial i/o is on the card, maybe you should like for the chips doing
i/o.  If there is a 16450, consider replacing it with a 16550.  They're about
A$15.

> Both.  Also about 64 meg of my GS hard disk.  I don't much think
> the Transporter is capable of running Windows.  Remember, it thinks
> it is an 8088.  If I am not mistaken, it takes a 80286 or better to
> run Windows.  It will run MS-DOS 6.2.

I have seen windows run on an 80186, (only ever seen one of these). An old
version may run on an 8088.  I don't really know why you'd want to though,
I can only imagine that the performance would be attrocious.



Anon, Spectre

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