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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] What FIFO level netbsd/16550?
Date: 24 Nov 1993 19:24:08 GMT
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In <2crj6d$fmr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:


>What # of characters triggers the interrupt in netbsd 0.9?


Thats FIFO_LEVEL_# in com.c -- by default set to 4; who came up with 4?
Is that a good number?  How about 2?

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