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From: jt@nrcvax.UUCP (Jerry Toporek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.lan
Subject: Re: CPU usage of telnetd
Message-ID: <601@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 15:47:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 15:47:40 1986
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References: <10620@amdcad.UUCP> <572@nrcvax.UUCP> <11048@amdcad.UUCP>
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In article <11048@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <572@nrcvax.UUCP> jt@nrcvax.UUCP (Jerry Toporek) writes:
>>In this case a good bit of
>>resource can be wasted passing off output to the telnet daemon to pass onn to
>>the net.  (This is what we were doing in our initial version.)  This can be
>>improved upon by arranging to pass data received by the terminal driver from
>>the class handler directly to the network driver.  (This is what we now do.
>
>This sounds like a good idea. Can you make Unix do this too?

Well, I don't know much about driver to driver communication under Unix.  When
you mentioned the DMF lookalike I thought you were probably talking about VMS
since the usual trick for doing a net tty driver on VMS is to "look like" a
real device.

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