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From: frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (frank segner)
Subject: Re: bidirectional com ports
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 05:35:40 GMT
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pgilley@feenix.metronet.com (Phil Gilley) writes:
: I've been out of touch for a long time, so bear with me. I'm about
: to upgrade my 386BSD 0.1 + patchkit 0.2.2 system (hey, I said it's
: been a long time) to NetBSD 0.9 or FreeBSD 1.0. Do either of these
: support bidirectional com ports?
:
i don't know much about the netbsd serial drivers, but the freebsd sio-driver
are !great!, i'm running 6 serial-ports (16550AFN, some of them bidirectional);
null problemo. 57600 bps with about 5% cpu-load (486/33).
btw.: it's worthwhile to upgrade ;-}
so long,
frank
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