On Sunday December 12 1999 at 11:14, Fred Springfield wrote to Leonard
Erickson:

 FS> However, one might make the following observation;

 FS> All your internet stuff goes through the COM port, and all the
 FS> tcpip stuff requires handshaking and date/time confirmation as part
 FS> of the IP protocol.

The serial IO driver merely spits bytes through a COM port.  All internet
protocol handshaking functions are performed by a combination of the TCP/IP
stack, MPTS and SLIP.EXE/PPP.EXE.


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