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  1. Path: news.luc.edu!user
  2. From: VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne Arase)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: RS232 & Strings
  5. Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:11:33 -0600
  6. Organization: LUMC
  7. Message-ID: <AD80BF159668DD7B@mcdiala13.it.luc.edu>
  8. References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960326144705.10920A-100000@Ra.MsState.Edu> <315953AB.47C1@airmail.net> <4jc8okINNahh@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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  10.  
  11. In article <4jc8okINNahh@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>,
  12. c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) wrote:
  13.  
  14.  >That is false. Polling is the fastest way to receive characters, at the
  15.  >expense of everything. You are less likely to miss characters with
  16.  >_continous_ polling than with interrupts.
  17.  
  18. That's how a lowly Macintosh Plus (1986?) can keep up with 230kbps
  19. (localtalk).
  20.  
  21. ---
  22. The above are my own opinions, and not those of my employer.
  23.