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- From: andyw@aspen32.cray.com (Andy Warner)
- Subject: Re: sun serial >38400
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.122742.3793@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <searsk-030193070145@3.7.192.190> <1993Jan6.213927.2788@ukw.uucp> <1igu0rINNsvt@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <1993Jan7.194405.15843@colorado.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 12:27:41 CST
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- In article <1993Jan7.194405.15843@colorado.edu>, garnett@refuge.Colorado.EDU (Santiago de la Paz) writes:
- > smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
- > >
- > >Bear in mind that the 8530 in a SPARCstation is a character-interrupt
- > >device. Every received character causes a CPU interrupt and the processor
- > > [...]
- > Huh? Since when did an interrupt every 13us or so become an unbearable
- > load? For well-designed and trim interrupt routines, this is nothing. I've
- > [...]
- > every 3rd administrator has a seizure at the very mention of anything over
- > 9600 baud. *sigh*.
- >
- > ~james
-
- Go ahead, write a trim interrupt routine & PPP stack, you'll
- be a hero.
-
- *sigh*
- --
- andyw. N0REN/G1XRL
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- andyw@aspen.cray.com Andy Warner, Cray Research, Inc. (612) 683-5835
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