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- From: deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt)
- Subject: Re: Sun's ZS chips (was Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!)
- In-Reply-To: lindh@uhasun.hartford.edu's message of Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15: 05:22 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:54:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.150522.8160@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> lindh@uhasun.hartford.edu (Andrew Lindh) writes:
- In article <1993Jan9.022926.26234@siemens.com>, aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
- >
- > >Why the heck did Sun not put better serial chips in their new machines??
- > >Isn't it obvious by now that the Zilog chips SUCK?
- >
- > What's so terrible about the Zilog chips?
- > ======================================================================8--<
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- On a Sun the highest standard speed is 38.4K!!!
- You can't get to 57.6K......
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- Yes, you can get 57.6K. That's a software problem, (ie. B50, B9600, no B57600).
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- The real problem is that supporting new-style bidirectional flow control on
- those chips is 1) difficult and 2) not done by Sun. Which means modems don't
- work as well as they should and could.
- <tdr.
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