aix/370 async. term help request

[Mark Bodenstein]

On Thu, 29 Mar 90 09:08:24 EST Alton Brantley said:
> ...
>  You do NOT want a 3090 stopping its work to field an interrupt containing
>a single character.

It's not (quite) as bad as first appears.  Packets for the 3090 are buffered
at the 8232 for a short while, to see if they can be aggregated with other
packets.  Under load, this means that there will be only 1 I/O interrupt on
the 3090 to receive many packets from many different sources.  This helps
quite a bit.

Mark Bodenstein  (mab at cornellc; 607-255-3747)
Cornell University