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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Paul Rubin wrote: > Some models of the 760 and even the 765 already omit the Mwave. > Personally I think mwave is a stupid idea. They should just include > a standard audio chip and a standard modem chip instead of making > users deal with mwave weirdness. (Mwave is worse for Linux users > than Windoze users, but it's a hassle even with Windoze). Actually, at the time MWave was a pretty good idea. Instead of hobbling the TP755 with a 14.4 modem for life, MWave let you upgrade it. I think the problem was that IBM made the MWave software dependent on the OS, and they underestimated how quickly modem speeds would quadruple. It took, what, a year and a half? for IBM to bring out the 28.8 upgrade. Obviously there was something wrong in their thinking that software could be made faster than hardware... In contrast, the TP701's modem is also a software modem, but its software runs independent of the TP and OS, thus it works just fine under Linux. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any upgrades for it. (IIRC the chipset that does the 701's Soundblaster emulation had enough processing power left over to do a 14.4/19.2 modem so IBM took advantage of it.) -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com