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Re: 701: Highest serial port speed? and other questions?
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Gene J wrote:
> I'm trying to find out the highest speed of the 701Cs serial port.
> I'm scoping out using an external ISDN modem through the serial port,
> and am hoping that I can get at least 128kbps out of the serial port,
> if not 200+kbps (probably way too optimistic).
Both the built-in modem and multiport serial ports have 16550AFNs that
should handle 115 kbps w/o problems.
I wasn't aware serial ports coudl run higher than 115 kbps. I'm not
sure how the hardware works, but I suspect this is a hardware limit,
since I've never seen a software option to go higher.
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John H. Kim
jokim@mit.edu