17 Jun
2013
17 Jun
'13
11:32 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, David Riley wrote:
Often times, it's because of drivers. Sometimes
it's because the baud
generators on the chip won't go that low, or at least it's not called
out in the spec sheet as supported (FTDI's datasheet for the FT2232,
for example, only calls out as low as 300 baud). Other times, it's
because the driver writers never bothered to implement support for
anything that low ("Why would anyone want to go THAT SLOW these days,
anyway?").
[lots more to save for future thought]
"Why support ANYTHING that was obsolete before I was born?
Why support ANYTHING less than 56K?
Why support ANYTHING RS232?"
"it is for the good of the industry that we make people 'upgrade'"
Youse guys will hijack ANY thread!
The original post in this thread was a perfectly normal
off-topic/meta-topic rant about what we argue about, and
you have moved it COMPLETELY back into classic computers!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
(#2, but I s'pose I could try harder to be the most prolific & offensive)