Subject: Re: Baudrates not what they used to be?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Julian Bean <jelibean@jmlbhome.demon.co.uk>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/16/1995 00:03:34
>
>The thing that puzzles me is that this clock is used to generate LocalTalk
>packets. A 6% error here would totally mess things up (since there is no
>divisor factor used for them). :-(

On that subject, how does appletalk manage to generate useful throughputs
of around 15K a second on a 57.6Kbps port?  (Which it is on the older
macs).

Julian


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