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- From: eckert@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com
- Subject: Re: Internal 14.4K Modems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.122931.1@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com>
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- Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
- References: <1992Dec14.214713.15837@nosc.mil> <BzD405.3Bq@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca <1992Dec16.185058.26848@selway.umt.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:29:31 GMT
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- >>
- >>If you are looking for trouble free high speed communications under
- >>Windows you'll be lookin' a long time. Because of windows cooperative
- >>multitasking and the some of the poor device drivers,interrupts can be
- >>turned off for more than 4 milliseconds. The buffer on the 16550A is only
- >>16 bytes or about 4 milliseconds long at high communications speeds.
- >>THerefore you will more often than not run into data overrun problems
- >>at high speeds under Windows. Best to compress the files at the source
- >>or transfer pre ZIPped files. Anything over 1100 char/sec under windows
- >>seems to cause retries using Zmodem on a 33 Mhz 486. Better yet do your
- >>high speed data transfers under DOS.
- >
- > That's funny.. I have no problems doing z-modem and/or ymodem-g transfers
- > within Windows. I regularly get 1500+ cps transferrs without retries
- > or errors. I'm using a Digicom Scout Plus (A great modem for the money!),
- > and Procomm for Windows. I've even transferred some text files and gotten
- > very high throughput (Can't remember the exact number) without any retries.
- > The Digicom has a built-in 16550 UART (of which flavor I am not sure..).
- > Always has worked great!
- >
- I agree, with my GW2k Telpath running windows on a 16 mhz 386sx I get 1500
- to 1600 CPS and I don't think the telpath even emulates the 16550.
- Something else must be slowing things down. (I run Xtalk for windows in
- enhanced mode)
- >
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- Chuck Eckert ECKERT@SKYLER.MAVD.HONEYWELL.COM
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