Hi Pete,
 
 RM> This was on my friend's 486 with a 28.8K Courier and an 8250
 RM> UART. It got data overruns every 10-20 seconds.

 PC> Did your friend have smartdrv installed with write caching enabled
 PC> perhaps, A 486 with 8250 UART's should be able to handle a 28k8
 PC> connect running plain DOS without problem, The every 10-20 seconds
 PC> sounds like it could have been smartdrv flushing it's write cache.

No he didn't. It was a 486SX/33 with 8MB of RAM, DOS 6.20.

l8r

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