Subject: Re: DS5240 serial ports
To: Lord Isildur <isildur@guild.net>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/11/1999 16:57:13
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:01:19AM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:
> 
> 
> This is sort of stretching it, but does anybody know if anyone has
> ever looked into (or achieved) modifying the external clock supplied
> to the 8530 serial interface in the DS5000/240? the 8530 is a very 
> fine UART, for example older macintoshes used them to drive AppleTalk
> ports at 230.4 kilobits/sec, and so it is sort of disappointing

FSVO "fine".  It has a 1-byte FIFO.  Your DECstation will *not* receive data
above 38,400 and do anything else useful.