> Provided these modern fast CPUs serve old slow peripheral devices
> or devices, which are insensitive to latency. Do we really leave dumb,
> but high speed, serial devices to RTlinux or to that poor netbsd? 8)
Btw, last time I played with serial ports getting data at 115.2k and
dropping characters, the effect was caused by the console driver or xterm
+ minicom combination. Using cat on /dev/ttyS1 resulted in a steady and
uninterrupted stream of data. Which leads me to wonder: does X disable
interrupts?
-ben
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