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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: tty-level buffer overflows
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On the subject of Re: tty-level buffer overflows, Tom Samplonius stated:

>   Dozens of complaints?

Well, at least a dozen.

>   Generally the above is caused by a poor UART, and and an overloaded CPU.

Not in this case, its a 16550A, on a 486/66 doing absolutely nothing except
trying to do filetransfer over the serial port with a custom app I wrote..

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich