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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE sio silo overflows?
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In article <50jlc5$gnu@yama.mcc.ac.uk> ip@mcc.ac.uk (Ian Pallfreeman) writes:
>It's an add-on card with 2 16550s, running at a mere 38400, which I imagine 
>even a 16450 could handle without sweating too much.

Indeed, I used to run with an 8250 (? or whatever the really old ones
are) on a 386 and didn't get a silo overflow most days.  The FreeBSD
driver can handle that easily, unless something's gone wrong in 2.1.5.

-- Richard

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