Hello, Charles

 JH> Hello, Charles. Thanks for your response as we were trying
 JH> to help Wayne C. by giving our best advice.

 CA> As was I.

??  The 'we' and 'our' above was meant to include you.

 CA> --8<--cut

 JH>> In any event, if what the Pentium board has is only 8250
 JH>> or compatible/emulated, I think no need to hurry to buy an
 JH>> external 56K serial modem, as TBOMK the 8250 won't support
 JH>> that speed. Corrections welcomed, if I'm wrong.

Was this the "bait" you thought you saw cast upon the waters?

 CA>> Seems like 'baiting' here to me but ...
 JH> You? Baiting? Noooooooooooo!
 CA> Reverse that. Someone trying to bait me. ;-)

Yeah. That's the ticket - - although it appeared I was just trying to
give Wayne C. some advice, I actually had found some bait, fixed up
my tackle, paid out the line, and went to trolling, hoping to get into
some sort of extended discussion with you. Pretty soon, the call that
every troller loves to hear - - "Fish on the line!"

NOT!  (AAMOF, nothing could be farther from the truth).

 CA>> AFAIK the 8250, 16450, and 16550 (no 'A') are more or less
 CA>> the same in terms of performance. MSD.EXE from Wayne's W31
 CA>> OS should tell him what they are? I've tested both the
 CA>> 8250 and 16450 and they will support 57600 using a null
 CA>> modem cable between the serial ports and GSZ as the
 CA>> application software doing the transfers with zero resends.

 JH> Well, a direct connection via null modem cable is one
 JH> thing, but as you say - -

 CA> The 'connect' to an external modem is no more, no less a cable
 CA> than the null modem cable. Once connected the modem handles the
 CA> 'traffic' from that point outward.

No news there, and I wasn't thinking the cable would be a bottleneck.



 JH> Unclear to me- are you saying that my advice to Wayne that
 JH> 8250 UART chip won't support 56K external modem (knowing he
 JH> intends to use Windows and/or Linux and surf the web)
 JH> wasn't good advice, and you think the 56K external modem
 JH> would work OK for him in that application?

 CA> Yes, I'm saying it will work.

I'll say more about that later, in the other msg response.  I've no more
time here for Fidonet tonight.

 

 CA> May as well thrash it out for the lurkers.

I'd guess maybe by now this highly topical discussion about the
8250's with 56K external modem is playing to an audience of about two -
-the moderator and Roy.

- - -  JimH.

... Roadkill?! Heck, Jim, lets go back- that critter is still _alive_ -Bubba
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