Subject: Re: Serial changes 1.1-current
To: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/03/1996 21:01:41
Curt Sampson writes:
> On Fri, 3 May 1996, Phil Knaack wrote:
> > >	That may be.  However, it's also possible that 38.4 or 56K is
> > >just too fast for a 386/40 all by itself.
> > 
> > 	This is nonsense.
> 
> Agreed. My Sun 3/60 has no problem with a serial port running at
> 38.4K.

Sun 3/60s have far superior serial hardware to PC serial hardware. PC
serial controllers are nearly the worst imaginable. Getting the things
to operate well is very hard -- the Linux folks had to alter the
entire tty driver to do it.

.pm