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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: IP4 Serial Port - How fast??
- Message-ID: <rvd93ic@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <jrh-031192085209@coyote.de.deere.com> <jrh-041192094409@coyote.de.deere.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 04:32:07 GMT
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- In article <jrh-041192094409@coyote.de.deere.com>, jrh@de.deere.com (John R. Howell) writes:
- > In article <SCOTTH.92Nov3111101@hoshi.corp.sgi.com>,
- > scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) wrote:
- > > 19200 is the fastest speed supported by the hardware.
- >
- > Bummer. Is this just for IP4 machines? Can indigos run faster?
- >
- > > I doubt that you can really get anywhere near that continuously.
- >
- > It is not unusual for me to get 3000 characters per second on file
- > transfers with a V.32bis, V.42, V.42bis connection. This is well over
- > 19200 baud.
- >
- > > Depending on OS release, the software may support setting the port to 38400.
- >
- > Would I run into problems setting the port to 38400, when it can only go
- > 19200? I am running 4.0.5.
-
-
- I am not sure what Scott meant by "19200 is the fastest...some software
- may support...38400".
-
-
- I dimly (and perhaps erroneously) recall machines of the 4D/60 or 4D/50
- vintage had two of their four ports that could not do "modem control"
- and could not be set to 38.4. ("R2300" based machines.) I think all
- machines since then have "supported 38400" in the sense of being able
- to send or receive 10 bits in 1/3840th of a second.
-
- However, the graphics hardward and software on some machines (e.g.
- 4D/20) have held off interrupts for as long as a millisecond or two,
- which makes 38.4 on UART's with 4-deep FIFO's rather less than
- reliable. In some sense, that probably counts as not supporting 38.4.
-
- At least some current machines do support 38.4, at least for SLIP on
- v.32bis/v.42/v.42bis modems. (I have heard of recent bug fixes for a
- few models concerning interrupt latencies.) Notice that MIDI is
- about the same speed as 38.4 async.
-
-
- The "6-port board" has also always "supported" 38.4 in the sense that
- you could set it to send or receive 10 bits in 1/3840th of a second.
- However, until the new firmware of last year, it would never do more
- than about 1000 Bytes/sec. That has been fixed; the new firmware
- reliably drives about 4.5 ports at a full 38.4 full-duplex.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-