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- From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow)
- Subject: Re: Max Serial Port Speed stuck at 9600
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.204156.16481@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Aug31.233630.20317@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <Btvv97.2sB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep1.114709.12495@utstat.uucp> <1992Sep1.154625.8928@unixg.ubc.ca> <Btww6q.3Bx@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:41:56 GMT
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- In article <Btww6q.3Bx@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
- |> george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes:
- |>
- |> >The Mac's serial port goes up to 57.6K. What does jeffo@uiuc.edu mean when he
- |> >say he can't get the Mac to go higher? Is he using kermit between the two?
- |> >Is he using his Mac as a dumb terminal to his NeXT?
- |>
- |> When I last hooked up a Mac IIfx to an '040 NeXT cube as a permanent
- |> terminal, the Mac could only go up to 9600. I asked a Mac consultant
- |> about this, and he told me that that was the story.
-
- Well, he lied. :) If you want to connect at a higher speed, contact the
- sysadmin of the NeXT you're hanging off of and ask him to edit his /etc/ttytab
- to give you a high-speed connection. (Just FYI, I myself use 19.2K.)
-
- |> --
- |> -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
- |> -- No NeXTmail please
-
- George
-