Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucsd!ames!ncar!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Setting BAUD rate with MODE command Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 91 19:52:28 GMT References: <1991Jan9.003303.18953@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Jan09.150149.15065@cpqhou.uucp> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: na Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 11 randys@cpqhou.uucp (Randy Spurlock) writes: >I hate to be picky, but since I developed the mode command for MS-DOS 3.0 >and programmed BIOS ROM's, I have to take offense! If you would read the >data sheet for the Intel 8250, the original asynch. chip used in PC's, you >would have seen that the data sheet said the baud rate generator was only >good up to 9600 baud, even though you could program it up to 115.2 Kbaud, I think the point is not to start a flame war but that it would be nice if there someone would post a simple (obviously, non-INT 14) way of setting the higher baud rates. I'd sure appreciate it, that's for sure.