ranting on serial I/O cards

[Larry Snyder]

In article <25e2f06a:817.1comp.unix.i386;1 at tronsbox.UUCP>, tron1 at tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
> Well, I'll tell you . I had the same search --- and picked a nice simple
> solution.
> 
> >DUMB< serial cards with 16550A's running the PD FASY driver for SYS 5 3.2
> 
> Does everything you want , never locks up . is REAL CHEAP.

But dumb ports (multple ones) supporting high speed modems put a massive
load on the primary CPU (don't they?)

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          Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA 
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