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- From: bender@oobleck (Duke of Canterbury)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: WorldBlazer blazes along at 219cps
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 01:17:42 GMT
- Organization: SPARK's R US
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- References: <1992Aug12.203523.13511@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes:
- : People who like fast modems beware... I'm fairly unimpressed with the
- : serial ports and drivers people stick on UNIX workstations.
-
- As well you should be. IMHO it seems that many workstation vendors (not
- naming any names here, BTW :-) give short-shrift to their serial port
- hardware, preferring to use the same old hardware that they have been using
- for 10 years rather than trying to upgrade their UARTs with usefull features
- like DMA, large FIFOs and flow control done in hardware. I suspect that the
- reason this is so is because there's not really a lot of serial expertise
- around, and most people (marketting folks in many cases) are content with
- saying "It's JUST a serial port, can you connect a Wyse-30 terminal to it?
- Yes? Good, then slap it in and ship it."
-
- As users, I would recommend that you call Sun (and other workstation
- companies) and let the companies know that you need higher-performance
- serial hardware that comes with the basic system and is not an expensive
- add-in board. Tell them that you're using V.32bis modems and ISDN terminal
- adapters that need to run at 56K and above.
-
- As an engineer at Sun working on some serial port products, I understand the
- need for higher performance serial communciations that come with every
- system, and I'll push it back into the products that I design, and talk to
- the motherboard designers to get them to wakeup to the need for high-speed
- serial communications on teh motherboard.
-
- mike
-
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