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From: ip@mcc.ac.uk (Ian Pallfreeman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE sio silo overflows?
Date: 6 Sep 1996 10:01:21 GMT
Organization: not this decade...
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References: <50i54c$mq7@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <322CCC95.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> <50jlc5$gnu@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <Dx9GF2.D51@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <Dx9GF2.D51@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>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.
Thanks, Richard. This is what my instincts tell me, but there's always this
nagging doubt ("duh, maybe a 486 isn't fast enough to drive a serial port"),
so it's nice to have confirmation.
Cheers,
Ian.
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