Re: Is the Sun serial interface THAT bad? YEP!

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From: Matt Landrum
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:19

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In article <1993Jan11.213317.17113@mapsut.einstein.com> shmuel@mapsut.einstein.com (Shmuel Einstein) writes:


   The sparc serial board does not do incoming 'hardware' flow control
   with rts/cts protocols.  Thus, one enjoys the problems mentioned in your
   posting.

I've never had any of the problems mentioned in that post with the 4
modems we have (We use hardware flow control).  I run 38400 between the
modem and the sparc.  Just lucky I guess.
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Subject: Re: Is the Sun serial interface THAT bad? YEP!
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