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
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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.*