RE: [TCLUG:224] RE: LUG - bash error and fat32

[Christopher Reid Palmer <jaymz@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Ben Kochie wrote:

> technical explanation: 
> "winmodem"s do not have a normal UART, they use a SOFTWARE UART that you can
> only get for win95.. there IS a winmodem driver in progress, but the person
> doing it may have decided to drop work on it.. on a P133, the driver takes up
> 80% of the CPU, he tested it in win95, and it did the same in win95.. software
> UARTs just don't work well

Let me parade my ignorance: what's a 'UART' ? TIA.

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