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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Can you lock DTE at 76,800 bps? Is that a valid speed?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.112344.4758@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:23:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1993Jan22.112344.4758
- References: <15JAN199316510895@elroy.uh.edu> <C0y8Mv.9q8@panix.com>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
-
- >In article <15JAN199316510895@elroy.uh.edu> st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:
- >>The Zyxel's which will support 19.2K in the future, should be able
- >>to do a DTE rate of 76,800. I talked to a shareware terminal program
- >>author and asked him if he planned to allow for 76800 DTE and his reply
- >>was that the speed was IMPOSSIBLE to do with an PC serial port because
- >>everything hhas to be evenly divisible by some number off of 115200 bps.
- >>
- >>Therefore, the divisor for 115K would be 1 ... for 57.6K, it would be 2.
- >>
- >>76,800 would not have an integer divisor, therefore, no go. So, I ask,
- >>is he right or wrong?
-
- >He's correct.
- >There's a lot more to the world than IBM PC compatibles!
-
- And most of *them* won't do it either. The problem has to do with the
- *UART* not being able to accept a higher input clock rate. The UART wants
- a clock which it divides by 8 to get a "master" clock. The maximum
- master clock the UART will handle is 115,200. Bit rates are determined
- by dividing the master by the value in the divisor registers.
-
- Check the specs for the UARTs in any personal computer, and I doubt that
- they'll do better. And many workstations cut corners on serial ports.
- So theyt may not do better either.
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