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From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: commport boards and MNP/etc (was: Error-correcting modems & uucp
Message-ID: <1990Apr13.000244.7613@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 90 00:02:44 GMT
References: <963@frcs.UUCP> <21466@nuchat.UUCP> <511445@nstar.UUCP> <1990Apr8.154834.1545@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <630@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Mundelein, IL
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In article <630@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> kleonard@gvlv1.UUCP (Ken Leonard) writes:
>In article <1990Apr8.154834.1545@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>* 
>* We >can't< run hardware flow control, since we have an Equinox board, which
>* doesn't support both it and modem control on the same port.
>* 
>Which brings up a question we're trying to sort out...
>Which multiport boards (especially for more than eight ports per CPU)
>support modem control _and_ flow control _and_ run with less CPU overhead
>than "native" com1/com2 ports (i.e. on a PClone-386 box)?

Digiboard allegedly does, with their newest drivers.  It hasn't worked
for me yet, but I don't know if the problem is at my end of theirs.


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