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> I've heard it works fine, particularly if you offload the serial port
> onto a different box :-)

Why?  It give the cpu something to do while it's waiting on the disk :-)

> However there is the bandwidth issue, as always..

They're supposedly going to a 115Kbps system in September, last I heard.

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