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From: owen@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Dave Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2232 multi-serial board and UNIX
Message-ID: <1991May8.041524.27154@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 04:15:24 GMT
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In article <zik.672986142@dec19> zik@dec19.cs.monash.edu.au (Michael Saleeba) writes:
>I'm setting up a public-access UNIX system and am considering buying an
>Amiga 3000 to use as the grunt. I want to connect around sixteen modems
>to this machine, but I don't want to cripple it with interrupt activity.
>My question is just how much work do the on-board processors on the
>A2232 do? If I have sixteen users running over modem and others on the
>ethernet, how much of my machine's time will be spent handling I/O,
>rather than on more compute-intensive tasks like the MUD I'll also have
>going. Also, is the reported hardware-break problem on the A2232 a
>hardware or software problem? Any ideas?
>
> ______      _
>|___  /  _  | | __	"I don't want the world - I just want your half."
>   / /  |_| | |/ /
>  / /    _  |   / 		Name:		Michael Saleeba
> / /__  | | |   \ 		At:		Monash University
>/_____| |_| |_|\_\		E-mail:		zik@bruce.oz.au

The UNIX implementation allows ONLY two users and (currently) defines 
ONLY eight serial ports!