Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!necntc!husc6!ddl From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: AN HISTORIC MOMENT! Message-ID: <4926@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 11 Jul 88 19:01:54 GMT References: <841@ast.cs.vu.nl| Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Lines: 17 In article <841@ast.cs.vu.nl|, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: | | This is an historic moment indeed. This message is being typed on a Z-248 | running MINIX attached to a 1200 baud modem connected to a remote SUN 3/60 | over a dialup line. In short, the long awaited RS232 driver seems to be | working flawlessly at 1200 baud. I have done 'cat file' and it seems to be | able to transmit/receive at 1200 baud without losing any characters at all. | I don't know whether it works at 2400/4800/9600 because I don't have any | modems for those speeds. However, I can promise that it won't work at 19200 | (because the 8250 UART used in the PC stops at 9600). Actually, the 8250 in the PC works fine at 19200 and all that I have tried also work at 38400, so you should allow these baud rates. (Some machines might even have fast enough CPUs to use them...) Dan Lanciani ddl@harvard.*