Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: Cruddy peripherals (was Re: Is it time for a "uunet-north"?)
Message-ID: <3879@becker.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 90 00:10:57 GMT
References: <90Feb5.222929est.827@church.csri.toronto.edu> <1990Feb6.171326.15603@utzoo.uucp> <387@sickkids.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <387@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
|[...]
|We can handle uucp at 2400 baud on our IBM XTs!  (With Venix/86, that is.
|I'm fairly certain that DOS+UUPC can go even faster, but it's undoubtedly
|a fairer comparison to match the two UNIXes.)  And we all know what a pile
|of junk those boxes are.  What's more, the 2400 baud is with the standard
|IBM serial card, which easily meets the cruddiness characteristics of the
|computer itself; you can certainly do 4800 baud uucp (under Venix) if you
|equip your XT with a decent serial I/O board; possibly 9600, I'm not sure.
|I presume that the 286 boxes (not quite as appallingly bad as the XTs, but
|still not terribly likely to win any major awards) would do better yet.
|
|I hope the designers at Sun are appropriately embarrassed.

	Commodore Amigas have extermely fast serial
	ports - they'll handle MIDI flat out (32Kbps),
	and will reliably transfer over 1200 character
	per second, even with Amix. They appear to have
	better serial i/o capacity than the AT&T 3B1,
	which certainly is no slouch either...

Cheers,
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  (__)	 Bruce Becker	Toronto, Ont.
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