djo7613@milton.u.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) (02/14/91)
We have two AST Premium 286 machines (one a more recent vintage "Work- station" model, the other the old large boat-anchor model) that are having trouble keeping up with serial port communications at 9600 baud. Has anyone had to deal with this before? We direct-connect to a line multiplexor without a modem, and have tried ProComm and MS-Kermit alike. Symptom is that after about a screen of display, the leftmost characters get "eaten". Sometimes the number eaten is predictable, usually it's just a hash. Feels like either a buffer overflow somewhere, or (related to that) the AST's can't send XOFF when their mouths are full, so to speak. I can plop a Kaypro XT next to one of these boxes and use the same serial line, monitor, power source and software, and the Kaypro doesn't lose anything. Neither do high-speed 386 boxes, or any of our other 286s. AST should get back to me "soon" on this, but I wondered if anyone in netland has seen/solved this. Yes, our distributor DID fold, in fact! :) "Moby" Dick O'Connor djo7613@u.washington.edu Washington Department of Fisheries *I brake for salmonids*