Hello Rick!
Friday July 11 1997 20:40, Rick Collins wrote to John Aldrich:
 JA>> That's interesting, because my roomie, who's a TECH for a local
 JA>> computer store, told me that our old Commodore Colt (an old 8086 CPU
 JA>> machine) would not be capable of handling anything more than a 14.4
 JA>> modem....even with a 16550 UARTed serial port.
 RC> That's quite possible - it depends on the architecture of the machine 
nd
 RC> how well (or how poorly) it supports interrupts.
 RC> The simplest answer is to tell you that I have done it, and know others
 RC> who have as well.  In fact, I know one guy who has operated at 14,400
 RC> with no problems with an old XT - and _with_ an 8250 UART.
Ahh...Ok. Interesting. :) I seem to recall him saying a 14.4 is about the top 
an old XT could handle....I won't debate you, though, since I've never tried 
it... :) Besides the XT we have doesn't have a hard drive...only two low 
density 5.25" drives. :)
        John
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