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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sgi!rigden.wpd.sgi.com!rpw3
From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Subject: Re: Highest com port speed
Message-ID: <nlcrd38@sgi.sgi.com>
Sender: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:04:41 GMT
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lidl@rodan.UU.NET (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:
+---------------
| It would appear that the highest data rate is what you would want
| with a V.32bis connection running with a full V.42bis compression
| rate in your modem:  57600 bps.
+---------------

Well, *I* want to be able to do (10/8)*64000 = 80000 bps, so that when
I'm talking async to an external ISDN terminal adapter I can feed it at
full speed... ;-}

Actually, does anyone know of a cheap ISDN BRI card for the ISA bus?
(Who needs terminal adapters, anyway? ;-}  )


-Rob

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Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510		rpw3@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc.		(415)390-1673
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA  94043