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- From: rsolomon@netvision.net.il (Ron Solomon)
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- Subject: Re: 28880 bps with a 386 ???
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 23:53:45 PST
- Organization: Yediot Aharonot, ISRAEL
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- In my personal experience, 28.8 doesn't mix well with 386 for a reason
- overlooked by previous posters.
- Most 386's still around, and there's probably enough of them, are pretty old
- machines, at least by industry standards. Good chance they won't have a
- 16550 UART, if you're half-lucky they'll come with a 16450 ART, which is
- alot slower. Worse yet, they mostly came with 8250 serial ports, with no
- buffering; this means a maximum throughput of 19200bps...which if attached
- to a 28.8 modem, would either create massive comm overruns, or else the
- hardware-handshaking would lower you back down to a max of 19.2.
- Of course you could always upgrade your UART for a few $'s, and then just
- hope your CPU ang graphics capabilities could match those of your modem's.
- Just my 2 shekels worth...
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- Ron Solomon,ISRAEL
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