ranting on serial I/O cards

[Larry Snyder]

In article <196 at van-bc.UUCP>, sl at van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
> 
> On Xenix even using 16450's will work for one or two Trailblazers quite
> nicely. On my system (25Mhz 386) I didn't really notice a tremendous load.
> 
> With 16550's I have run three Trailblazers and three 2400 Hayes with little
> loading and no character loss problems.
> 

Ahh - but with Xenix.  Unix would have problems with 3 blazers and 3 2400
baud modems all going full bang on dumb ports.  I wonder if 16550AFNs and
a replacement driver (FASY, Murray) would work in the above installation
(under 386/ix of course) supporting 6 modems?

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          Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA 
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