mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) (01/16/89)
A month or two ago, I mentioned that I couldn't tell, after upgrading from System V/AT 2.3 to 2.4, whether the infamous serial driver bug was still present. The reason was that I had to keep rebooting, myself, because of the NEW keyboard bug (those who blame the hardware are ignoring the fact that it worked fine under 2.3). Now that I've gotten used to avoiding control-s and control-q, I can safely report that the serial driver problem has not gone away. It is now, on my system at least, far worse. With 2.3 the crash intervals were measured in weeks. Now, I don't wonder is not whether my system will crash on any given day -- I take that for granted. The question is: how many times? The average seems to be 2 or greater. I have to assume after several years that Microport does not have the desire (or perhaps the ability) to fix this problem. Me, I don't want to spend money on different software for a 286 system that's going to be outmoded soon (if it isn't already). Can anyone offer solutions? Is there a third-party serial driver available (PD, free, or commercial)? Am I wrong in thinking that the driver is at fault, is it perhaps impossible to write a fault-free serial driver for Sys V/AT; would it be pointless to try to write one? Yours, -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett Zinn Computer Co/ PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 BIX: mmallett uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM ( ...{decvax|elrond|harvard}!zinn!mem ) Northern MA and Southern NH consultants: Ask me about MV.COM