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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cheshire.oxy.edu!mcws!techsys!berk
  2. From: berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org (Berk Walker)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: Serial IRQ polling
  5. Message-ID: <7NswVB4w165w@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org>
  6. Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 20:22:29 PST
  7. References: <1gm7luINNcco@life.ai.mit.edu>
  8. Organization: Private for Now
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  11. > 
  12. > It is interesting that Coherent could do this with no problem. There was a
  13. > small decrease in speed but who cared... it ran unbelivably slow anyway.
  14. > 
  15.  
  16. Polling slows Coherent 4.0 in a drastic fashion.  It didn't seem to 
  17. affect SCO Xenix 2.2.4, tho.  (some serial multiport boards are set up to 
  18. run w/o interrupts in Xenix)
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  20. Berk Walker                           berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org
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