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In article <dillon.3912@overload.UUCP> dillon@overload.UUCP (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>In article <981@tau.sm.luth.se> d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes:
>>
>>Now for my question:
>>I have read articles here (or in c.s.a.) saying that some of you use
>>38400 bps between Sun and Amiga using a terminal program (JRComm
>
>    I advise not to run DNet faster than 19.2KBaud on the built in serial
>    port simply because a standard Amiga cannot receive faster without loosing
>    data... you wind up going slower due to packet errors.  That's all.  Since
>    both DNet and terminal programs use the serial.device one assumes the
>    same problem would occur with the terminal programs.

While a 68000 Amiga may have trouble, 68020/68030 Amigas don't. Dnet
can send & receive at 38400 with no trouble at all with such.

>    UNIX systems tend to barf on serial at high data rates.  Generally, the
>    kernel buffer (usually 256 bytes) will get full before the user task
>    has a chance to drain it with read(), causing lost data.  The problem can
>    normally be avoided by using a 7-wire (e.g. RTS/CTS) interface which is
>    certainly possible if you are directly connected.

No disagreement here. I have two Amiga's hooked to a Sun 3/260 which
can handle 38400 reception most of the time with only Xon/Xoff. I
would like to try RTS/CTS, but have never gotten any Dnet past 2.01
to completely work (2.01 doesn't support RTS/CTS) and haven't had
the time to try anything but trivial debugging, so ...

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