>On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, George Toft wrote:
>
>packets.
>
>> Aahhh - Being new to Linux I'm sure I misspoke. When I was deep in
>> the DOS world, we had no problems with high-speed modems and NICs on 286
>> and 8088's. I see that Linux has far more to do than just listen to
>
>The high-speed NIC's and modems on those 286's and 8088's are probably not
>all that high speed. 8088's typically had token ring or NE1000 cards,
>with a smattering of WD8003's and 3C501's mixed in for good measure. All
>of these 8-bit cards could never keep up with a fully loaded network;
>fortunately, they were very rarely used in promiscuous mode and so
>basically didn't have to. As for modems I never saw anything faster than
>2400 baud attached to an 8088, and rarely any faster than 9600 on a 286.
>(a couple of exceptions for 14.4's running on BBS's in the last of the
>olden days).
>
I successfully ran a 28.8 modem on my old 8086 4.77MHz pc clone for years, and
I regularly achieved maximum possible thruput with Z-Modem transfers.
I did have to replace the original 16450 UART (I think that was the chip)
with A 16550 as it had a 16 word buffer in it.
It seems to me therefore (as another Linux newbie)that the original poster's
math was not too far off.
Bob Nienhuis
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