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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: tip at 38400+
Message-ID: <Cttw32.C6A@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <31gbj7$n1p@sundog.tiac.net> <31geil$g3e@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 23:33:00 GMT
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In article <31geil$g3e@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> willeyma@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) writes:
>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
>and the Linux box have?  What you need is 16550.

I'm typing this message on a FreeBSD 1.1 system with 16450 chips running
at 38400, so it certainly can be done.  I'm planning to install NetBSD
1.0 as soon as it arrives, and I hope it can do the same...

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University                 R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk

Ooooh!  I didn't know we had a king.  I thought we were an
autonomous collective.