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echo: aust_modem
to: Hamish Moffatt
from: Steven Anderson
date: 1996-09-01 07:16:44
subject: Re: 2 (or 3) Serial ports to one an

HM> If you wanted to do it cheap with poor performance, I guess you could get a
HM> with three serial ports and hack yourself up some software. A 286 should do
HM> if you're in to assembler programming, otherwise a low end 486. Not for the
HM> faint of heart though :-)
 I was thinking of a 486SX25 or dx2/66 systems running a program that just 
grabs incomming data from 3 serial ports and packets'em out 1 (and back at 
other end.. ).. Id be using a Fossil Driver (Buffers :), Would this have 
poor performance?  (Using PowerBasic, 57600 (and 115k2) Baud Rates for a 28k8
or 33k6 Modem Link :).  I thought it would keep upto a modem EASY?!?!..

 Cya!
Steven

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