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From: joej@oakhill.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Keeping up with 19200 baud
Message-ID: <2671@sol.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 05:40:39 GMT
References: <1219@smurf.ira.uka.de> <568@panix.UUCP>
Reply-To: joej@sol.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <568@panix.UUCP> alexis@panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>
>This is not my field of expertise, but I believe that the Mac's built-in
>serial ports can't begin to cope with 19.2kbps because they get an interrupt
>for every byte. If so, either your statistics are wrong, or you're using a
>serial card.

My Mac IIx's built in serial port (phone port) is connected to a SUN
workstation serial port and I've been running at 19200 for a looong time.
I haven't noticed any problems using Mac II as a terminal or for
upload/dwnloads.