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- From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
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- >(``What are split baud rates?'' the American reader is asking.
-
- Which is kind of amusing; they were put into one of the "termios"
- section drafts at the suggestion of a Canadian, and the person who
- initially put them in there was a US citizen who was quite aware that
- UNIX (a system most if not all of whose original creators were also US
- citizens) used to support them....
-
- UNIXes with a V7-flavored tty driver (V7 itself, BSD) supported them;
- the people who did the S3 tty driver decided not to include support for
- them.
-
- It seems that much newer hardware doesn't support them - serial port
- chips don't seem to allow the input and output baud rate to be set
- separately - but older hardware did. Do systems sold in Europe have
- serial port chips that support split baud rates?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 54
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