Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 03:44:55 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To: "Alexei A. Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: Q: Serial port communication / Hardware interrupts
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> From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:10:26 +0400
> 
> 4th, interrupt driven serial I/O is not good also. I have no luck with it. It
> really works, but again characters are lost... You can't rely on it too.

FWIW, I once wrote an interrupt-driven serial library, and it worked
well (on plain DOS, never tried it on Windows), up to the maximum rate
of 115K baud, never losing a single character.