Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2018-08-30 10:07 a.m., James Knott wrote:
As I mentioned, I suspect this sort of thing was inherited from Unix practice, back when serial ports were common. Also, how much in the way of resources does this consume? Software designed to handle multiple devices, as was what I wrote for my IMSAI, can handle any practical number of them.
My experience with the PDP-11 and a Motoroal box that had 128 serial ports on the back as shipped was that the hardware actually did a lot of work, the UARETS were pretty smarts and the on-board hardware often had deep caches.
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