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From: derekb@teleport.com (Derek)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ISDN TA's supported for BSD Unix?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 02:14:46 -0800
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In article <JUN.97Feb4154233@goten.sinfony.ad.jp>, jun@goten.sinfony.ad.jp
(Junichi Kurokawa) wrote:

: Off topic warning ahead ;-)
: 
: In article <5d63c4$7p2$1@gail.ripco.com>
: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) writes:
: 
:    In article <JUN.97Feb4095800@goten.sinfony.ad.jp>,
:    Junichi Kurokawa <jun@goten.sinfony.ad.jp> wrote:
:    >In article <5d2goc$fvp@grobbebol.grobbebol>
:    >bengel@xs4all.nl (Roeland Th. Jansen) writes:
:    > [-CUT-]
:    >Only Macs can do 234000bps with their syncronous Geoport bus.  Most
:    >other hardwares such as your PC's are limited to 16550A's 115200bps
:    >limit or even slower, making them meaningless on MP'ed links.
: 
:    Macintosh isn't _that_ special-
: 
:    PC's take PC ISA bus cards, which are available in async speeds through
:    230Kbs, and can also accept _sync_ serial cards at similar speeds.
: 
: I knew I was excluding cards.  See my recent other post regarding
: "faster serial card" stuff.

Ahh... Macintosh is special.  

And yes, it seems the discussion is about serial ports.

   As a UNIX/MacOS programmer, Microsoft can kiss *#@&$*#.
   ( please allow me to vent once in a moon )