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From: alanp@goodman.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Is com performance improved under NetBSD 0.9 ?
Date: 1 Oct 1993 16:07:25 -0700
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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I have been using NetBSD 0.8 for some time now, and am very happy with it,
except for one thing:  the performance of serial i/o.  I have a 14.4 kbps
modem and would like to be able to run it at 14.4, however the lossage is
too high.  I have to use it at 9600, and still have constant silo overflow
errors, and so I doubt that my throughput is actually 9600bps.  Has NetBSD
fixed this stuff in the latest release?  I looked at the file CHANGES on
agate, and couldn't find anything.  But since the com and lpt support in
0.8 are easily its greatest shortcomings, it would surprise me if nothing
was done in these areas.

alan pearson.
alanp@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
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alan pearson
alanp@cory.berkeley.edu