21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
2:53 a.m.
In article <7BB24FE4-710A-4B31-8642-E41D30DB4410 at feedle.net>,
"C. Sullivan" <feedle at feedle.net> writes:
stop. It can't handle baud rates much over 1200
baud: at 9600, for
example, it loses characters.
In the 1979/1980 time frame we were overjoyed at the introduction of
1200 leased line modems connecting our terminals to the PDP-11/70
across town. I was the one who discovered that they would operate
perfectly at 1800 baud -- a 50% increase! The lines were only rated
for 1200.
NAPLS is a pain-in-the-ass protocol to deal with, BTW.
These days you'd just do it in ROM code in a microprocessor and while
the details of the protocol may be tedious, I'm sure even something
like a lowly PIC microcontroller could keep up with it at 1200 baud.
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