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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is UUCP is critical feature for Unix machine?
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 20:46:46 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4dovvm$m3c@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4chrn4$nm2@usenety1.news.prodigy.com> <4ckopg$6iv@mips.pfalz.de> <4d10p3$dsm@usenety1.news.prodigy.com> <DL94wH.231@bokonon.ussinc.com>
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- In article <DL94wH.231@bokonon.ussinc.com>,
- Stephen M. Dunn <stephen@bokonon.ussinc.com> wrote:
-
- | In the special case of a standard PC serial port, even with a
- | 16550, I get a little worried in expecting it to be perfectly
- | loss-free. I've seen some (albeit somewhat underpowered - I'm
- | talking 386/40) systems which, even with a 16550 and a 16550-aware
- | OS (Xenix 2.3.4), would lose data at 38.4 kbps.
-
- If you still use that system, get FAS (Final Asynchronous Solution),
- the ultimate serial driver. It has everything the Linux driver does,
- and (last I looked) more. I used to run two lines at 38.4 with a
- 386-16 and didn't have any problems.
- --
- Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- Davidsen's first rule of system administration:
- He learns to swim fastest who is thrown in the deepest water.
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