Re: Friday thanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port ?

Jim Gribbin wrote:

>Oh these young children who haven't seen anything ...
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>That is the fastest "on board" serial I've seen, but I have an ISA
>serial card that does 460K and I used to have a PCI that was capable of
>920K. Some ISDN modems, i.e - the 3Com IQ, are capable of 460K This is
>what was supplied with Internet Alaska's JetStream service. The areas
>first xDSL setup known as IDSL or ISDN over Frame Relay.
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>adam bultman wrote:
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>>Greg Madden wrote:
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>>>On Friday 07 April 2006 23:45, Royce Williams wrote:
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>>>>Hey, thanks to everyone who made my second in-person Friday
>>>>interesting. Some things that I or others learned tonight:
>>>>
>>>>- Serial console defaults to 38400.
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>>>minicom's configuration of the serial port defaults to
>>>38400 :-) 'setserial' has its own config, as will wvdial, etc. dmesg
>>>always reports, on boot, setting my serial port to 115000, or is that
>>>just reporting capacity? Thanks for the serial cable, educational for
>>>sure.
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>>A serial port's maximum transfer rate is 115000 bps, which is why you
>>should never get a serial ISDN modem (ISDN being 128000 bps).
>>
>>Adam
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Received on Sun Apr 9 21:07:47 2006