Serial port speed

[Neil Gorsuch]

In article <9920 at brazos.Rice.edu> andyd at pogo.wv.tek.com (Andy Davidson) writes:
>What is the maximum speed at which one can use the serial port on a Sun
>(particularly the 4/65 if that matters)?  We have heard 19.2 Kbaud and
>38.4 Kbaud --- both from Sun people --- and would like to know what has
>actually been done successfully.  (We would actually like much higher
>speeds, but....)

With our SCSI based serial port expander, baud rates can be any arbitrary
value up to almost 150K baud.  And that limit is there only because the
particular RS232 drivers that it uses starts to produce triangle waves
rather than square waves 8-).

[[Ed's Note: Please note that Neil is an employee of Uninet and as such, his
opinions may be biased :). You can contact him directly for more information 
on this product. -bdg]]

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