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From: rdante@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Rick Dante)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: com drivers, syscons and patchkit 0.2.2
Date: 21 Apr 1993 02:44:27 GMT
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>In article <C5BM02.4z5@newsserver.technet.sg> milton@solomon.technet.sg
>(Milton Choo) writes:
>>
>> I would really like to find out how many of us here downloaded
>> everything thro modem and how they did it.
>
I ftped the binary and source for 0.1 back in July (a day after it came out)
onto a small /tmp of a very, VERY slow (and very loaded) VAX. Then I
downloaded into DOS at 2400 bps. Throughput was 120 cps at best, very
unreliable, and the whole process took days.
I later got a V32.bis 14400bps modem and got SLIP working very well with
the original unpatched system (no 16550s either, just a 16540 emulating
modem.
I was desperate back in July, but I would do it all over again even knowing
how much better 1.5K/sec SLIP-over-modem is. Even knowing how
fast ftp over T3 works for some of the servers I used to use at school, I
would still get 386BSD at 2400 bps if I had to.
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Rick Dante
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