On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Mark Newton wrote:

> The entire system stops for text console output too, btw, for precisely
> the same reason.  (when I say "entire system", I mean that text output
> on the console overrides SCSI and network interrupts!)

I have not used a serial console on a Sun extensively, but I can imagine
how slow it could be.  Simply displaying a long directory listing is
painfully slow (probably due to the 9600 bps port rate).

Mike.

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