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In article <825570548snx@esl.tex.com>
           dbuckley@esl.tex.com "David Buckley" writes:

> In article <825272326snx@llondel.demon.co.uk> David Hough
>  <dave@llondel.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I have serious doubts as to the performance of high-speed serial comms 
> > under a DOS extender anyway - at work we switched to OS/2 from DOS to 
> > avoid problems losing things in the real<>protected mode switching, 
> > even with a 16550 at 9600 baud! Just occasionally the switch seemed to 
> > take ages and we couldn't find a reason why.
> > [snip]
> 
> MajorBBS by Galacticomm is a Phar Lap 286 product, and can happily
> (using 16550A uarts) support over 100 simultaneous 38400 connections on
> a 486/DX2 66.  Lots of serial activity is possible in protected mode,
> but it's obviously not trivial :-)
> 

Quake, the new game from id, uses the CWSDPMI with djgpp v2 and uses serial
connections for multiplayer.  I'm not too cluey about all this, so I don't
know if that means anything :)

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