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From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
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Subject: Re: BSD io
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:30:30 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199706242030.NAA03815@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jun 24, 97 01:30:36 pm"
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> In point of fact, I worked on a DOS communications program
> that could do the same on an 8MHz AT.  It took the interrupt
> for the first character, disabled interrupts, and polled like
> hell until there was a break in the data.  It's all a matter
> of how you program it.

Geeze.  Who here has _not_, at some point in their career, written a
DOS (or CP/M) communications program?
-- 
Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com

I have something in common with Terry Lambert.  Who'da thunkit.