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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
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: 20 Nov 1996 19:13:38 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <56ml92$b4a@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) wrote:
:
>> Nobody polls serial ports except old Mac software that didn't know
>> any better.
:
: ...and messy DOS, of course. :)
Yeah, but who uses that ? I recently (about 6 months ago) wrote a serial
poll routine under DOS that did nothing except print the received characters
using a BIOS routine - it could only do 9600bps reliably :(
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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