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From: dave@eram.esi.com.au (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PPP at 115200 bps (FreeBSD or Linux?) to a Xyplex MX1620?
Date: 12 Oct 1994 11:16:39 +1000
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In article <37djo4$h8d@news.mic.ucla.edu>,
    delaroca@library.ucla.edu (Denis De La Roca) writes:

[ Hayes ESP card ]
| No! It has its own onboard processor and features 2KB FIFO buffers and DMA.
| To applications that don't support its native driver it can offer a 16550
| interface with the added benefit of deep buffering. It is in this mode that
| the *nix folks are using it. Though, someone could write a *nix driver...

Actually, there _is_ a driver for us BSD/386 folks...

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