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In article <02373.AA02373@spirit.kref.sub.org> rob@spirit.kref.sub.org (Roland Bless) writes:

[ The Amiga can't handle high baud rates.]

> He tested it with different Kickstarts, Workbenchs, serial-devices and
> port-handlers. He thought that it is maybe his A-1000, so we tested it with
> my AMIGA-2000 (A-2000B Rev4.3, European/PAL-Model, A2058, A2090-ST1096N).

First of all, use AmigaDOS 1.3.  There were improvements to the
serial.device.  Also, just for completeness, you might want to use
AmigaDOS 1.3.2 since it's always nice to be running with the latest
bug-fixes.


You did a pretty good analysis, but you had one big flaw:
You used 2 slow terminal programs.  JRcomm is good, but not at high
speeds.  Platinum Online is a silly little program that is not well
respected.  Try VT100 2.9A (free) or ATalk-III+ (commercial).

You asked "why do term program permit high baud-rates when they can't
handle them?"  Well, it's because most aren't tested at high baud
rates.  Commercial software does get good testing and you'll only see
the baud rates listed that they can actually do.  (Oops, I should say
"*good* commercial software gets good testing).  If you notice, 
VT100 2.9A only lists the tested baud rates.  The next version will
include 19.2Kbps because I've tested it at that rate.


So, obviously the question is, "where is the problem?".  Well,
basically the serial.device in pre-1.3 AmigaDOS wasn't so hot, and 1.3
only has a couple improvements.  Commodore has stated that there will
be a new serial.device someday (presumably in 1.4) that will have been
re-written from scratch and will be quite fast.  Obviously the Amiga
can handle it.  It just takes good software.
(I say that because the ASDG serial board doesn't have its own CPU and
they get great results.  Results so good that ASDG posted that it
seems futile to produce a board with a CPU now that they've seen what
a well-matched hardware/software design can do on the Amiga).
[I'm not speaking for ASDG, I'm just a happy customer.]


So, basically the solution is to get better software: (1) get a new
application and (2) get 1.4.  Sadly, you can only do #1 right now.
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