Bruce Clark said the following to Edward Rutledge on the subject of
Modem Selection? (11 Jul 97  21:48:00)
 -=> Quoting Henk Jaspers to Edward Rutledge <=-
 ER> No you will not be able to use the high speed (14,400 bps or
 ER> faster modem) with a 286.  You may be able to send at that speed,
 ER> but you won't be able to receive.
 BC> Don't know what you're talking about. I was using a 14.4k
 BC> external modem with a 286 12MHz and the nonbuffered serial
 BC> port for over a year. I always used a 57.6k computer to
 BC> modem speed and never had any problems.
 HJ> Maybe I am one of the exceptions to the rule but I have used an
 HJ> external 14K4
 HJ> modem with a 16MHz 286 pc and a 16450 UART for years without any
 HJ> problems. I even know of people that have used a 28K8 modem with an XT
 HJ> and a 16550 UART
 HJ> quite succesfully both sending and receiving...
Edward is partly right. My own experience is with an 8088 XT, with 16550
uart, and a 14.4K external modem. The dte was at 57.6K locked. It worked
perfectly with zmodem dl's and with many pages worth of direct ascii
text. The dte however would lose characters near the end of long ascii
documents as the modem's buffer caused an overflow around a 65K point.
For all practical purposes this was insignificant even under desqview.
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