Re: Lap-Link style PC-to-PC disk copies via ethernet?

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From: stockman harlan w
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:03

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In article <5049@equinox.unr.edu> malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) writes:
>Does anyone know of a way to do Lap-Link style wholesale disk copies
>via ethernet, vs. via a (feh) 9600/19200 serial line?

Laplink over a serial line is 150,000 bps, not 9600/19200. The transfer
is interrupt-driven, and skips the normal polling interface. Parallel
port I/O over Laplink is ca. 500,000 bps.

So there.

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