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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news.pop.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1G - SLIP performance problems Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 21:55:32 GMT Message-ID: <Cp58wL.GKw@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <2pqst6$g4s@opine.cs.umass.edu> <Cp15CK.qII@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 13 In <Cp15CK.qII@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> bj@kidd.vet.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes: >The 16550A has a FIFO which helps prevent data loss at high transfer >rates. As I understand it, though, there is just *one* FIFO, and you >have to choose which way it buffers (input or output). You misunderstand. The chip has separate FIFOs for the transmitter and receiver. -- Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org Home +49 721 606137 Work +49 228 445175 Es genuegt nicht, keine Gedanken zu haben; man muss auch unfaehig sein, sie auszudruecken. - Karl Kraus