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In article <2050@watmath.UUCP> grwalter@watmath.UUCP (Fred Walter) writes:
>Query: has anyone had any experience using a 2400 baud modem with a C64
>or a C128 ? Can either of these computers support 2400 baud, even in

2400 baud is impossible on a C-64, unless you totally chunk all Kernal
routines (in which case it would STILL be extremely unreliable, and
you would be limited to 40 columns because 80-column emulation is too
slow even for 1200 baud).

Commodore personel have stated that 2400 baud is possible on a C-128
while running in 80 column mode at 2Mhz. I am not qualified to judge
the truthfulness of this statement, since I do not have a 2400 baud
modem and have only had a C-128 for 3 weeks. It does seem rational,
though... processor twice as fast, baud rate twice as fast, and with
the 128's real 80 column screen, no problem emulating a "smart"
terminal.

Actually, what is needed is a hardware UART. I have diddled with
perhaps taking an Intel chip and hanging it off the user port, using
the timer as the bit clock, but haven't attempted it yet. A 6800/6500
family chip would be very difficult to hang off the user port, since
it would be a synchronous chip (needing a 1 Mhz. clock to operate and
expecting its operands within that clock).

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