From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Jun 24 01:59:41 1997
Return-Path: <owner-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA04170
          for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:59:41 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA04165
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:59:38 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from karpen@localhost)
	by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA01299;
	Tue, 24 Jun 1997 08:59:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Message-Id: <199706240659.IAA01299@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Subject: Re: BSD io
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970623222529.7612B-100000@aak.anchorage.net> from Steve Howe at "Jun 23, 97 10:41:44 pm"
To: un_x@anchorage.net (Steve Howe)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 08:59:42 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

According to Steve Howe:
[...snip...]
> > BSD will not run on a 186
> 
> no?  you're kidding.
> 
> > but a 386sx20 will run ports at 115000 without flow control.
> 
> i'd say that's pushing it, if there's some truth, i'd 
> bet you'd get errors on a long steady stream.
[...snip...]

Hardly pushing it. We ran two gcc compiles at 5MB each on a 386sx16 with
8MB of memory, while at the same time making it push things at 115200 bps
on a serial port. Seemed to run smoothly. Can't say 100% we didn't get any
errors on the stream on the serial line, but I wouldn't expects so. That's
with 16550's chip cards in the 386, ofcourse.

  /Mikael