Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mtndew!friedl
From: friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Steve Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Multiport Serial Boards...
Message-ID: <407@mtndew.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 07:32:46 GMT
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Organization: Steve's Barnburner 386
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I write:
> Specialix boards are indeed very fast, but they don't do bidirectional
> modem interlocking -- you're stuck with uugetty (ugh)

Randy Suess writes:
>  Whoa!  What is wrong with uugetty?  Do you mean with a 
>  particular ports card, or just in general?

In general, uugetty sucks.  There are real problems with DTR
contention between the incoming and outgoing devices, and I bet a
donut that nobody out there actually has it working 100% right
all of the time.  I have had a dozen people try to claim the
donut, but *every time* it turned out that they had compromised
on at least one area.

     Steve

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