286 serial port woes

[Len Rose]

I am evaluating V/AT 2.4 on an 8 mhz clone 286 with 1 meg
of ram. Can't reliably sustain a uucp transfer at speeds
greater than 2400 baud. The system is extremely slow ,and
is virtually unusable with a 16 bit compress running in the
background.

I despise Xenix yet it seems that SCO Xenix runs rings around
V/AT on the same hardware. 

My question is: Is V/AT really this bad,and if so, how can they
still be in business? I am sure the hardware isn't the blame since
Xenix performs "acceptably" give the fact that it's just a 286.

Stunned and open to advice.




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len at netsys.com
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