>  I have noticed that while running kermit in a pcvt screen that
>characters are dropped very often however in an xterm I have not noticed
>characters being dropped.  The silo's still occur but at least I can
>type this letter.

I've noticed this as well.  I believe that pcvt frobs the video hardware
at a very high priority, thus locking out serial port interrupts for too
long.  I don't have a solution, though (I don't know if pccons has the same
problem or not).

--Ken