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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem

Softmodems were painfully CPU intensive vs a hardware/controller-based modems. A slow Celeron proc, as found in most eMachines of the time, was already chugging to keep 98/Me going with everything else.