david, at 20:13 on Mar 07 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Yours is not a typical problem though, and I wonder if the modem and term
BG> have been set up correctly, as even an old 286/10 should be able to
BG> handle a port speed of 38400 without problems (the need for a 16550 UART
BG> notwithstanding).

db> This all depends.  My ol' i486DX 33MHz running OS/2 (without buffered 
db> UARTs) would run happily with 28.8Kbps DCE/DCE and 57.6Kbps DCE/DTE, as 
db> long as I didn't over-stress it. 

Didn't COM.SYS utilise some sort of 1Kb software buffering for data?  I no
longer have my OS/2 redbooks, but it certainly rings a bell.

db> As soon as I tried playing an audio CD (using the interrupt-driven SCSI 
db> port on the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 card), the number of generated interrupts 
db> skyrocketed and characters started being lost.

I'm not the least bit surprised to hear that!

db> This situation has since been "rectified", though.  ;-)

With 4 diodes, or a 16550 ?  :)

Regards, Bill

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