[comp.os.msdos.programmer] High speed serial communication

msmith%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Matthew Smith) (06/20/91)

In article <140842@unix.cis.pitt.edu> ejost@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Ernest J. Obusek) writes:
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>Is it possible to write programs that run the PC serial port at 56K baud?
>All I need to do is dump text to a serial printer at that speed.
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>Ernest
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>ejost@unix.cis.pitt.edu
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You can run the PC serial card up to 115200 bps if you know how to directly
the UART chip and make your program asynchronous (ie: don't use BIOS calls,
relying on interrupts to do what you need).

Matt Smith
msmith@peruvian.utah.edu