[rescue] Solaris 8 Differences

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, February 4, 2002 at 14:01:52 (-0500), Dave McGuire wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Solaris 8 Differences
>
> On February 4, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > > > Dumptrucks and 18 wheelers do not generally set speed records.
> > > > > If you want snappy video, use PeeSea hardware, or spend the Big Bucks (tm) on
> > > > > a Real Graphics Workstation.  Workhorse boxen weren't always designed for the
> > > > > purpose of having pleasing consoles, they were designed to GET WORK DONE.
> > > >
> > > > but wait, maybe we can have our cake and eat it too.
> > > >
> > > > the LX is capeable of doing 38.4K on a serial line.  is that not fast enough?
> > > 
> > > But how much pain will the interrupts cause?
> > 
> > How fast can you type?!?!?!?
> 
>   I'm sure Sridhar was talking about bursts of *outgoing* characters.

Which especially in bursts don't cause interrupts, and especially not
one per character.  :-)

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