Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!tuvie!hpuviea!mah
From: mah@hpuviea.UUCP (Michael Haberler)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Super Cheap IP router (< $1000)
Message-ID: <878@hpuviea.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 10:17:47 GMT
References: <8904140206.AA10084@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Vienna,Austria
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From article <8904140206.AA10084@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by dcrocker@AHWAHNEE.STANFORD.EDU (Dave Crocker):
> 
> Many, occasional sources of activity warrant interrupts.
> A few, active sources warrant polling.
> 

This is, by the way, what the hp-ux tty driver  on the 300 series does: if 
traffic is low, it works on a interrupt-per-character basis; if traffic 
exceeds some high-water mark, it switches to polled operation.

-michael
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