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- From: cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil)
- Subject: Re: High Speed Serial Patch
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.201529.25911@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:15:29 GMT
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- >Kevin D. Sears, GE Medical Systems, searsk@med.ge.com writes:
- >Many times I've seen the discussion come up regarding high speed modems and
- >Suns serial port problems. The following patch can be purchased from
- >Sun Consulting.
- >CONSULT-HSPEED version 1.3
- >
- >Sun UNIX releases supported: 4.0 4.0.1 4.0.3 4.1 4.1.1 [and 4.1.2]
- >Workstations models supported: sun3 sun4 sun386 sun3x sun4c
- >
- >This special consists of a streamlined, low-overhead STREAMS module that
- >provides reliable input at
- >speeds up to 38.4 Kbps over any Sun serial RS-232 port.
-
- I just called Sun Consulting on this (1-800-225-4449). They want $950/cpu (!!!)
- for this patch, $2850 for 10, & $5700 for a site license! All for software
- that should have been there in the first place (or at least in 4.1). Moreover,
- it's still the zs serial port, so ``if you type or use the mouse during a
- transfer [at 38.4 kps], characters will probably be dropped.'' Yuck.
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- Gerald Cecil cecil@wrath.physics.unc.edu 919-962-7169
- Physics & Astronomy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA
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