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well, apparently there is (and I quote!) "an excruciating path to the
serial i/o device on the board"...

<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message
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> >So far, from what simple tests we've run each character seems to be
> >taking about 10ms to display via serial and 0.03ms via ethernet - does
this
> >sound reasonable to everyone?.. :-)
>   10ms/character means 800ms, or nearly a second, to display one full line
> on a CRT.  If it takes 30 mics to generate a character (ethernet speed)
> and another 9,970 mics to display it on a serial line, I'd be wondering
> what's going on.