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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Unix for SLIP/PPP Server- Best Reliability/Cost?
Date: 17 Nov 1996 08:07:47 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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References: <56cfhc$h8b@access5.digex.net> <56l9i4$e7k@cynic.portal.ca> <56lbop$egq@nntp1.best.com> <56m28s$jpb@cynic.portal.ca>
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:In article <56m28s$jpb@cynic.portal.ca>,
:Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote:
:>In article <56lbop$egq@nntp1.best.com>,
:>Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote:
:>
:>> Nobody polls serial ports except old Mac software that didn't know
:>> any better.
:>>
:>> Modern multi-port serial cards will do hardware handshaking themselves
:>> and use FIFOs.
:>
:>And how does the data get out of the FIFOs? You've got it: polling.
:>No interrupts are generated.
:>
:>cjs
:>--
:>Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/
:>Internet Portal Services, Inc.
:>Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.
Let me get this straight.. you believe that since there is a FIFO
involved that the only way to get the data out is by polling ?
Leave the hardware explanations to hardware engineers... you obviously
aren't one.
-Matt