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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Better UARTs?
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:46:07 +0100
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- References: <4g0hq5$166u@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <1996Feb16.015106.8732@ais>
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- bruce@ais.com writes:
-
- [ 16750 and Auto-RTR/CTS ]
- > I _DO_ hope that the flow control is selectable
-
- Of course it is.
-
- > Also, there are several flavors of hardware flow control; although
- > RTS/CTS is the most common and seems to be the most reasonable
- > interpretation of the signals, methods such as DTR/DSR also exist.
-
- Yeah, DTR/DSR is a favorite of VT220/VT320 clone terminals. I recommend
- a cable wiring DTR/DSR (terminal) to RTR/CTS (host, modem). There are
- also other schemes out there, like a single READY line (on a strange pin
- number), and I'm sure there's worse.
-
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