[Gllug] Modems

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Wed 10 Jul, Oliver Lawrence made the following spurious claims:

> 	Well I'm afraid to say that i its very hard to find a hardware Modem on
> PCI because There is no standard for serial interface PCI (so i was told
> when faced with the same problem).

Actually there is a very simple standard interface for PCI modems.
They present themselves as a standard 16550 serial interface.  That
means they should work with any OS that supports standard serial
ports.

Of course finding one these days could be VERY difficult.

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