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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > COmputer A with 56K modem, 
> 
> When were 56K modems invented?  I suspect it posted-dated
> the pppd in Slackware 3.5.

Our Slackware 3.2 book is dated 1997, second printing, following first 
printing in 1996  This implies that SW3.5 is either 1997 or slightly 
later.

In 1997 there were two standards of 56K modem.  We have several so-called 
56K winmodems that despite using the 56K driver, operate at 28.8K because 
they are flex or X2 or something, no longer supported.

So SW3.5 might have been put together before there was just one 56K 
standard for winmodems, but does that also affect normal modems?

Anyway, whatever problems we have had online occurred with all three 
modems, not just the 56K.