Subject: Re: Baudrates & AppleTalk
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From: Rick C. Petty <pett0019@gold.tc.umn.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/16/1995 12:17:11
On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> AFAIK the max baud rate is 57.6K on all the Macs. The reason that
> LocalTalk is faster is that it routs through a different part of the chip.
> So basically it gets to be the max rate *4 (note 230.4 Kbps = 57.6 Kbps*4)

Are you sure?  Mine seems to do 115.2 just fine???

> I can spout more details if you wish, but bascically the Baud Rate
> Generator has an extra /4 in it relative to what the Phase-Locked-Loop
> (used by LocalTalk) can do.

That would be nice.  I like technical stuff.  :)

--Rick C. Petty,  aka Snoopy
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