386 motherboard, 16 megs, and computone (intelligent serial) board

[Riccardo Pizzi]

In article <1991Jan09.140231.9764 at nstar.rn.com> larry at nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>Computone's drivers are being rewritten by a third party - so hopefully
>they will work sometime in the near future at an address below 1 MEG.

Who is rewriting the drivers?

>If so, then I should have no problems installing another 4 megs in this
>machine.

I hope the same for me...

>Are you running X11R3 or R4?  R4 is leaner on system resources - and
>from information I've gathered is much faster handling video IO.

I know that, I am developing with X since about 16 months.
At home I run the excellent Roell's server, and it is really fast when I am the
only user on the box, but becomes a little slow if there are two or three
more users logged in. Pretty normal I think, with a 20 MHz 386.

Ciao

Rick
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