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- From: jimc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (James Carpenter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Serial IRQ polling
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 20:08:09 GMT
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- In article <7NswVB4w165w@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org> berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org (Berk Walker) writes:
- >Polling slows Coherent 4.0 in a drastic fashion. It didn't seem to
- >affect SCO Xenix 2.2.4, tho. (some serial multiport boards are set up to
- >run w/o interrupts in Xenix)
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- I had Coherent 3.2.0 on a 286 16 MHz. I never saw much of a speed decrease.
- It was always slow.
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