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- From: jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams)
- Subject: Re: Does anybody REALLY need 115.2K baud for a modem?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.003653.9037@alw.nih.gov>
- Keywords: modem serial RS-232
- Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
- Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
- References: <1992Aug15.150835.1362@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1992Aug17.193308.22751@alw.nih.gov> <1031@auratek.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:36:53 GMT
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- In article <1031@auratek.UUCP> dmostrom@auratek.UUCP (Douglas E. Mostrom) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >[...]
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- The point of my post was not to debate the particulars of hardware
- implementation. I simply question the wisdom of continuing to use the
- "RS-xx2" interface when other options with better performance are
- already available for connecting high-speed devices.
-
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