Keeping up with 19200 baud

[Joe Jelemensky]

In article <568 at panix.UUCP> alexis at panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>
>This is not my field of expertise, but I believe that the Mac's built-in
>serial ports can't begin to cope with 19.2kbps because they get an interrupt
>for every byte. If so, either your statistics are wrong, or you're using a
>serial card.

My Mac IIx's built in serial port (phone port) is connected to a SUN
workstation serial port and I've been running at 19200 for a looong time.
I haven't noticed any problems using Mac II as a terminal or for
upload/dwnloads.