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- From: dmostrom@auratek.UUCP (Douglas E. Mostrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Does anybody REALLY need 115.2K baud for a modem?
- Summary: Aurora SBus cards support 115.2K baud. UARTs not used.
- Keywords: modem serial RS-232
- Message-ID: <1031@auratek.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 17:56:37 GMT
- References: <Bt0Fn5.6KF@cd.com> <1992Aug15.150835.1362@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1992Aug17.193308.22751@alw.nih.gov>
- Organization: Aurora Technologies, Inc.; Cambridge, Mass.
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1992Aug17.193308.22751@alw.nih.gov>, jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams) writes:
- >
- > It's time to retire the UART and move on.
-
- I'm no hardware engineering guru, but I believe that most serial cards
- use intelligent ASICs, and not UARTs, to drive serial I/O.
-
- BTW, our 400SX and 800SX SBus boards support 115.2K baud asynch now, as
- well as 57.6K baud. With a slight hack to the software driver, the board
- will support up to 128KB. In future software driver releases, we expect
- to also support 56KB, 64KB, and 128KB async. The biggest use so far seems
- to be to attach those really cheap X terminals that Qume makes.
-
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