From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 26 09:41:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29433 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA29425; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA07826; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:29:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199706261629.JAA07826@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: BSD io To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:29:36 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199706250430.VAA11972@exit.com> from "Frank Mayhar" at Jun 24, 97 09:30:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > > 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? It's not the same thing at all. Mine was commercial, and it was the top rated communications program for UNIX systems (beating out even UUCP) for four years in a row. It was also the first shrink-wrapped psoftware ever sold for UNIX systems. It could also emulate a VT100 well enough to run EDT or LSE, with you sitting at a Hazeltine, Televideo, Wyse, IBM 3101, or other not-at-all-DEC-compatible terminal. And vice versa. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.