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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Flow control in TOS 1.4
Keywords: atari,st
Message-ID: <1552@atari.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 00:09:53 GMT
References: <43ad1ca2.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP>
Reply-To: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <43ad1ca2.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
| Does anyone know if Atari ever fixed the flow control problem in
| the last Developer's RAM version of TOS 1.4?? I recently purchased
| a new US Robotics 9600 baud modem which will go as fast as 14,400 buad
| BUT it requires flow control.
| 
| I am told that the USR 9600 HST modem runs at the higher speed just fine
| on a Mega ST using TOS 1.2. But, it doesn't work with the Dec 1988
| disk-based TOS 1.4.

Whoever told you the above was confused.

Nothing in the flow control has changed since Mega TOS. There was a
problem with flow control in the original ROM TOS.  It didn't work at
all.  That was fixed in Mega TOS.


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