Subject: Re: serial ports/ttys on pmax
To: Anthony D'Atri <aad@nwnet.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/13/1996 20:45:20
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Anthony D'Atri wrote:

> >All ports which use the z8530 or equivelents (sun, sparc, mac68k, pmax,
> >and atari) are currently using drivers based on an origonal sun or sparc
> >driver. These drivers are now very solid on the mac; people have gotten ppp
> >to run at 57600 reliably
> 
> I'm not intimately familiar with these chips, but the Zilog chips that
> Sun uses can't really keep up at >19.2k, which is increasingly a pain.

Under SunOS or NetBSD? It might be a question of interrupt latency. The 
chip can quite happily go along at 57600 or higher. :-)

Take care,

Bill