Unix release 4.0

[Tim Wright]

In <12423 at uudell.dell.com> jrh at mustang.dell.com (James Howard) writes:

>In article <1990Nov18.122854.6911 at nstar.uucp>, larry at nstar.uucp (Larry
>Snyder) writes:
>> Has anyone used smart serial port drivers written for Unix
>> SysV rel 3.2 under SysV rel 4.0?  We have a computone 
>> intelliport - and are wondering if our 3.2 drivers will
>> run under 4.0?
>> 

>the 3.2 computone drivers were not very reliable on V.4.  Computone has
>come out with 4.0 drivers for this card however.  

I have this vague recollection from the "porting guides" that streams
based drivers must be recompiled due to changes in the data structures.
I don't know how many smart port card drivers are streams-based but I
think a number of them are.
Anybody care to comment ?

Tim
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