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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Unix for SLIP/PPP Server- Best Reliability/Cost?
Date: 17 Nov 1996 09:18:26 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) wrote:

>     Nobody polls serial ports except old Mac software that didn't know 
>     any better.

...and messy DOS, of course. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)