Serial Communications Beyond 38.4 Kbps

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From: Ben Mehlman
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:08

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I am writing an application that needs to send asynchronous serial data at  
a speed of 250 Kbps.  Specifically, I'm trying to generate DMX-512  
standard multimedia device control signals.

This leads to two questions:

1) Can the NeXTs serial ports physically go that fast?

2) Is there any software support for this type of operation?

As far as #2 goes, the NeXT docs and FAQ state that the top supported  
speed is 38.4...  I'm hoping that there may be others who have written  
alternative device drivers...

Thanks.

Ben Mehlman
bmehlman@trirex.com

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newshost!root
From: bmehlman@trirex.com(Ben Mehlman)
Subject: Serial Communications Beyond 38.4 Kbps
Message-ID: <1992Aug31.230842.11663@Trirex.COM>
Keywords: serial, DMX512
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Organization: Trirex Systems Inc.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:08:42 GMT
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