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From: bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: tip at 38400+
Date: 1 Aug 1994 07:47:35 +1000
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney - +61-2-837-1183, v.32bis v.42bis
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In article <31geil$g3e@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
Mark Willey <willeyma@sage.cc.purdue.edu> wrote:
>Consider yourself lucky.  I can't go faster than 9600 bps!  This is because I
>have some cheap-o 16450 UARTs on my motherboard.  What type of UARTs do you

The FreeBSD driver was designed to work at 115200 bps on a 386/20 with a
16450.  Slip throughput is 9500 cps in practice.  On faster machines with
16550 it should work at 115200 bps with more 16450's or many more 16550's.

However, it may not work with a 16450 at 115200 bps on any machine with
SCSI controllers that steal too many cycles from the CPU (my U34F seems
to steal up to 240 usec of cycles at once for transferring 16 sectors :-().
It won't work if the system or device that it is connected to is too
slow, of course.
-- 
Bruce Evans  bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au