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A Guide to Building a PC with an AMD Athlon™ Processor 22914B/0—September 1999
Two Modems
Modems are typically not available in PCI format. This is because modems use a low-
speed 8-bit communication protocol and cannot gain from the additional speed that is
possible in a 32-bit PCI slot.
Photo 53 shows two typical modem designs. The modem on the top uses the full 16-bit
ISA slot. The modem on the bottom uses only the 8-bit portion of the ISA slot. Either
of these modems will work in your new AMD Athlon processor-powered systems
Photo 53. Two Modems
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