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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2018 17:22:02 -0700
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Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!)
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cinap_lenrek@felloff.net writes:

> why? the *HOST CONTROLLER* schedules the data transfers.

I *DON'T KNOW*.  It's just observed behaviour.

> ahhhh! we'r talking about some crappy raspi here... probably with all
> caches disabled... never mind.

Hah.  An Rpi tips over with 1200 baud USB serial.  I was talking
about "real" (Intel :-P) hardware for the other tippy-over behaviour.

--lyndon