Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 12:26:01 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel & some basic UNIX pointers Message-ID: <9506131626.AA01992@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506130350.NAA06987@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199506130350.NAA06987@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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<<On Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:50:07 +1000, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said: > The context switches don't stop zmodem from being faster than the kernel ppp > even when the packet sizes are large. Zmodem doesn't have to do any context switches in order to operate. IIJ-PPP by definition does. Kernel PPP does not. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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