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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: com drivers, syscons and patchkit 0.2.2
Date: 14 Apr 1993 13:57:20 -0400
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In article <C5BM02.4z5@newsserver.technet.sg> milton@solomon.technet.sg
(Milton Choo) writes:
>
> I would really like to find out how many of us here downloaded
> everything thro modem and how they did it.

I originally downloaded the whole system at 9600 baud over a direct
serial line, before I wrote an ethernet driver for my 486 box.

No problems at all...

(486DX-25 with two serial ports running 16550As)

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