Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!piglet!madler From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: 9600 bps serial communications Message-ID: <1990Aug17.134755.25158@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> Date: 17 Aug 90 13:47:55 GMT Sender: news@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 8 So howcums it is that my 25 MHz 32 bit NeXT "mainframe" can't keep up with my 2 MHz 4 bit HP pocket calculator when the latter is running a 9600 bps serial line into the former? Seems like a pretty sorry state of affairs. Mark Adler madler@piglet.caltech.edu