From: dave@yarc.uucp (Dave Rifkind) Subject: Re: Anyone interested in an intelligent serial board? Date: 28 Dec 1992 05:44:20 GMT
In article <1992Dec27.055652.412@yarc.uucp> dave@yarc.UUCP (Dave Rifkind) (that's me) writes:
>You'd better make that FIFO *really* big.
>
>I have an Intel SatisFAXtion/400. When working as a modem, it acts like
>a 16450 except that it has an approx. 64K byte input buffer. I still
>can't uucp without lost data. There's something much more seriously
>wrong than just long interrupt latencies; you're not going to overflow a
>64K buffer without working at it pretty hard.
I didn't notice where I was cross-posting when I wrote this item.
Thanks to those who sent me mail, but I should have made it clear that
I'm talking about a Coherent problem. Those of you running 'real' OSs
can now snicker to yourselves and go back to what you were doing....
;-)
-- you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either