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On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Alan Batie wrote:

> > 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.
  They are on it now.
> 
Naief