commport boards and MNP/etc (was: Error-correcting modems & uucp

Norman Kohn nvk at ddsw1.MCS.COM
Fri Apr 13 10:02:44 AEST 1990


In article <630 at gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> kleonard at gvlv1.UUCP (Ken Leonard) writes:
>In article <1990Apr8.154834.1545 at ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl at mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>* 
>* We >can't< run hardware flow control, since we have an Equinox board, which
>* doesn't support both it and modem control on the same port.
>* 
>Which brings up a question we're trying to sort out...
>Which multiport boards (especially for more than eight ports per CPU)
>support modem control _and_ flow control _and_ run with less CPU overhead
>than "native" com1/com2 ports (i.e. on a PClone-386 box)?

Digiboard allegedly does, with their newest drivers.  It hasn't worked
for me yet, but I don't know if the problem is at my end of theirs.


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