On Tue, 21 Jun 94 08:46:02 -0600 
 mike@cs.utah.edu (Mike Hibler) wrote:

 > > To: port-hp300@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
 > > Subject: serial ports
 > > From: jason downs <downsj@CSOS.ORST.EDU>
 > > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 02:21:29 -0700
 > > 
 > > the dca serial port actually appears to be *worse* since the 4.4 integration..
 > > does anyone have any ideas about this, at all? (i.e., before you could at least
 > > login from a dca console; now even that is impossible.)
 > > 
 > Worse in what sense?  Dropped chars?  Generally not working?  I hacked it
 > quite a bit for 4.4 since I had an unbuffered serial port on my machine at
 > home.  I can receive at 19.2k baud without dropping chars.  It is possible
 > I could have broken something for buffered port (ala the 345/375/4xx).

The parity check seems to have broken (did it ever work?)...among other 
things...The machine's a 370...I'm not sure if it has a buffered port or 
not...

login: root
@$#^WSCH%^S#$^SADFHE%^&W#$%DFHG$%^SERFGDR%^W#$%@#^ RSHG (...and so on...)

...is a pretty good example of what happens...

 > 
 > > as well, has anyone tried the dcm drivers lately?
 > > 
 > CSRG uses the dcm quite heavily (for their SLIP lines) on their 4.4 machines
 > so I wouldn't expect any major problems.

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