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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Fixing Apples serial drivers. How???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.232918.9155@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:29:18 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <alen.720823089@crash.cts.com> <1992Nov17.161910.618@cs.yale.edu>
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- The problem is quite real, and not System 7 specific. Appletalk
- disables interrupts while it gets the packets, and doesn't service the
- modem port in the copious free time it has (if a Mac 512 has no free
- time to do it, a Q700 ought to have plenty--HEY APPLE!!!!!!! FIX IT!)
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- So, if during the time Appletalk is getting the packets, more than 3
- characters come in on the modem port.... whammo, hardware overrun.
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