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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Subject: Re: Modem on //c ...
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Date: 7 Jan 89 06:09:25 GMT
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>(like Z-Link) should be able to work at speeds up to 9600 baud. Any program
>which doesn't use interrupts (such as Kermit) would have to poll the serial
>port at a pretty high rate.

Whoa, Dave.  Your parental pride in Z-Link is justified, but you're a little
out of touch with what the competition does.

Both Ted Medin's Kermit-65 and Dick Atlee's Kermit-A2 do USE interrupts
(and work dandy at 9600 baud).  Dick's also offers the option of POLLING
if it's used with a serial port that doesn't support interrupts, AND it
manages quite nicely at 9600 (as has SOFTERM 2 for more than 4 years).
The fact that (at 9600 baud) the program must be polling "at a pretty
high rate" is irrelevant from the users point of view (more of a problem
for the software developer, I suppose).

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