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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: COM port with more than 19200 Baud possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.014831.21340@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <721857591marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:48:31 GMT
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- In article <721857591marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de> marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann) writes:
- >Just a question: is it practically possible to use the com-1 port with
- >more than 19200 Baud (I know I can set the Baudrate to max. 57600)
- >without getting too much errors .... of course the 16550AFN would be
- >installed ... and normally working with the system. Perhaps running a
- >compiler like C/Set2 as an application beside it .....
-
- I think you should have no problem provided you have hardware
- handshaking enabled and that you are using the buffered 16550AFN UART,
- as you describe.
-
- Incidently, IBM PS/2 systems now have DMA serial and parallel ports,
- which really help lift the load off the CPU.
-
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