Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax freezing...

["Paul A. Franz, P.E." <paul@eucleides.com>]

At 07:36 AM 8/2/2001Marc Silva sez:
>I was using a old (slow - Pentium 150) machine to faxserver.
>But now I'm using a "new" computer (more faster - AMD K6II 266) and
>there's no more problem.
>I'm using brooktrout MPM8 and Hylafax 4.1 with the same configuration.
>
>Some guys need to see deadlock problem with slow machine.
>
>see you...
>
>Marc Silva
>IT Department
>ebiznet corporation
>marcs@ebiznet.com

I use a 486/66 EISA machine which handles 100's of incoming faxes a day 
without problem. That is not a slow machine either.

BTW, in 1986 through 1993 my fax was an IBM 8088 with 640K RAM running as a 
diskless workstation with Xerox MicroFAX card in it processing faxes round 
the clock. It had an attached XES Data Products 300 dpi 256 greyscale 
scanner with a sheet feeder and ran perfectly non-stop.

This idea that a Pentium class machine is too slow for faxing seems 
appalling to me. If the machine has 16550 UARTS or better it should be able 
to support data at a cte/dte rate of 38,400 bps continuously considering 
the connection rate never exceeds 14.4kbps, processing the incoming TIFF 
files or outgoing TIFF plus conversion to/from postscript and driving a 
printer as only a light load for a 386. In fact, I have a very nice 386/25 
running Redhat Linux 5.2 with 16550 UARTS. I think I will run HylaFAX just 
to prove that the world that faxing is not big deal. If you recall, a 
386/25 was lightning quick compared to a 10 MHz XT.


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