Re: Cable extensions

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From: Oz
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <19990409.1852.4661snz@michaels.demon.co.uk>, Michael Salem
<4ms2u$ms@michaels.demon.co.uk> writes

>I've run RS232 to about 150m at 9600 bps; probably over the official 
>limit (I don't remember), but it ran fine for years, during the whole 
>of every working day. This was for a terminal on a multiuser machine 
>(5 users on dumb terminals off a single 386/16 running Concurrent 
>DOS; runs from 2m to 150m).

Indeed. For many applications there is still a lot to be said for the
humble rs232. There are many applications that require a cheap and
reliable connection of low-moderate speed and remember one used to be
able to play multi-user doom over it, which is fairly incredible.

-- 
Oz

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