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From: marc@aria.ascend.com (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: 4.77MHz PC sufficient for 19200 bps modem?
Message-ID: <1266@aria.ascend.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 15:49:29 GMT
References: <243.2861EA82@zswamp.uucp> <7382@bone34.UUCP>
Organization: Ascend Communications -- San Francisco
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In article <7382@bone34.UUCP> keating@motcid.UUCP (Edward Keating) writes:
 >   If you are evaluating communication programs, Procomm 2.4 will keep up
 >   with the comm link at 240 - 480 cps. Procomm Plus will display 2-3
 >   times faster (again, your mileage may vary depending on your display
 >   adapter. CGA is worst, MDA with the long persistence monitor is better,
 >   and EGA/VGA are usually faster. Check out the PC Mag reviews for the
 >   fastest display times of cards for the mode you wish to operate in,
 >   text/graphics and pick a card.)

Procomm Plus will not keep up with a full duplex ascii transfer at 19.2
Kbps.  A full duplex ascii transfer is _the_ comm program torture test.  The
best I've found (in spite of its user interface which I hate!) is Hayes
Smartcom III.  It will handle 19.2 Kbps full duplex ascii transfers on two
serial ports simultaneously.  This is a good thing when you're using PCs and
comm programs as lab test equipment.  (I remember once spending hours
looking for a bug in a serial driver because a PC comm program was dropping
characters.  Now I get a protocol analyzer FIRST :-)

// marc


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