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From: reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 20:29:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Speed of serial ports under 386BSD
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Yes this is a problem with most Unixes, because there is a high latency
between the issuing of an interrupt and the time it is served. This
is due to other processes taking cpu time. So in fact the problem
should be less with a tiny kernel, because I assume you have less
processes running....
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