Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!tronsbox!tron1
From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ranting on serial I/O cards
Message-ID: <25e622d2:817.6comp.unix.i386;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 07:00:26 GMT
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>Author: [Larry Snyder]
>  Date: Fri Feb 23 1990 06:53 
>> >DUMB< serial cards with 16550A's running the PD FASY driver for SYS 5 3.2
>But dumb ports (multple ones) supporting high speed modems put a massive
>load on the primary CPU (don't they?)

Well, with the FIFO's on the 16550A's enabled I havenet noticed MUCH .. of
cource, it is more load that a dedicated CPU card .. but a good solution in
the interim.  

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