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- From: jgodfrey@zeus.calpoly.edu (Jon David "JET" Godfrey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: BaudBandit.device
- Summary: Couldn't get it to work.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.171950.169467@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:19:50 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.085505.13897@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Jul23.191255.4655@odin.diku.dk>
- Sender: jgodfrey@demeter.CalPoly.EDU
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- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- In article <1992Jul23.191255.4655@odin.diku.dk> kensaga@diku.dk
- (Kenneth Fribert) writes:
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- >The best setup is using Zmodem and RTS/CTS and 57600 baud (locked)
- >You can use the high baudrate on a normal machine with the BaudBandit.device,
- >which is shareware. The RTS/CTS requires a 7-wire cable (as a minimum) and
- >will improve throughput because of the hardware handshaking, it will also
- >ensure that no data is lost.
- >The max speed on the supra is 14.400, but on top of that comes v42bis which
- >is data-compression, and this adds quite a few baud, on unpacked files it
- >reaches >25000, opacked files >16.000.
- >With the Baudbandit.device a lot more system-resources are freed and thus the
- >screen-color depth isn't that important.
-
- You have mentioned the BaudBandit.device to provide much better performance. I
- downloaded my copy of it from the wuarchives. I tried using BaudBandit.device
- on VLT, JrComm102, and on ATalk3. As soon as the system tried to change over
- to the new device, it would crash hopelessly with a Guru#4 (Illegal Instruct.).
-
- I was wondering if anyone else had this problem, or if that device is available
- for FTP download elsewhere. Perhaps it was just screwed up on wu...
-
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