> I'm writing this in an xterm running on the Quadra connected
> to my mail host using a PPP link. I think that Allen wrote
> about a problem with his patch and serial communication, but
> its still running for me.

Cool.  I was having problems with one of my drives.  The current
(today's) patch doesn't exhibit those problems.

> I had the byte benchmark recently mentioned on this list laying
> around, and I tried it on an unpatched kernel and one with
> Allens patches.

Hmmm...  Those rely on timing.  I don't recall exactly, but I though
that with the old esp driver, the clocks would lose time.  The patched
esp driver does not lose time (I guess 'cause it's quicker).  At least,
I measure it to be quicker with dd (dbl-checking wall time with reported
time ;-).

-allen

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