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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Modem setup on 386BSD [and a further QUESTION]
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 22:24:18 GMT
Message-ID: <C7wwwJ.4Ku@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
References: <CJB.93May28115334@thrip.cs.uq.oz.au> <1993May28.195017.23712@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1u81il$o45@wzv.win.tue.nl> <1993May30.065415.28948@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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In <1993May30.065415.28948@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

>Even if this isn't a problem, polling all the cards and reading one byte
>from one or more of them is going to limit the overall throughput
>something fierce.

Yeah right.  If that were the case then FAS wouldn't be able to
sustain 115kbps on dumb boards with 16550s with precisely this
technique.


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				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

Personally, I don't care whether someone is cool enough to quote Doug
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