Hello Chris!

Tuesday September 17 1996 23:29, Chris Core wrote to PETER HOCKING:

 PH>> With a 8250 or 16450 UART he'd be lucky to properly support a V32
 PH>> modem,  let alone V34 or V34+ modem!
 > Get back on the grass. You don't need a 16550 to handle high speed comms
 > -if- you're not multitasking/threading. Which is exactly what PC said.

Depends on decent communications software too. I recently wrote (as a
university assignment) a little serial comms program in assembler, max bps
rate was 19200. Do you think this would lose characters? I think you'd say
no, especially since it's in assembler -- but I used polled IO, not
interrupts. Okay, this is an extreme example (you'd be nuts to poll in a
real comms program), but don't you think some of the features in the more
extravagant comms programs like Telemate and Terminate might cause
problems?


Regards,
Hamish

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