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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: FAS with NS16550A versus a smart serial card?
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.121307.7642@nstar.uucp>
Date: 12 Oct 90 12:13:07 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.231550.9362@pegasus.com>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Limited
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richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:

>Does anyone have any comparative data between running a fast uucp
>connection with an NS16550A port with the FAS driver versus one
>of the smarter serial cards?

I don't have any numbers for you - but I can tell you that we
are running with a Computone Intelliport here on nstar - and with
4 high speed modem sessions running - the system is just as fast as
without any modem connections (it boogies regardless).

We were some time ago using FAS - the serial IO was fast - but
the system would appear to get bogged down with 4 high speed 
modems all going full blast (with high speed connections)..

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