Re: Setting BAUD rate with MODE command

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From: Doug Dougherty
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 1991 19:52

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randys@cpqhou.uucp (Randy Spurlock) writes:

>I hate to be picky, but since I developed the mode command for MS-DOS 3.0
>and programmed BIOS ROM's, I have to take offense! If you would read the
>data sheet for the Intel 8250, the original asynch. chip used in PC's, you
>would have seen that the data sheet said the baud rate generator was only
>good up to 9600 baud, even though you could program it up to 115.2 Kbaud,

I think the point is not to start a flame war but that it would be nice
if there someone would post a simple (obviously, non-INT 14) way of
setting the higher baud rates.  I'd sure appreciate it, that's for sure.

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