Re: Using modem on IIGS

[dcross1@nospam.home.com (David Cross)]

In article <6vhluq$t1b$1@eve.enteract.com>, tward@XXXXenteract.com says...

>I just figured I'd chime in here with my experience. I have an 8MHz Zip
>in my GS. I use a USR Courier V.Everything V.90 (56K) modem. When I use
>the GS serial port at 57600 bps, I have no trouble getting up to about
>5100 cps with ProTERM, ANSITerm and Spectrum, although I have to be
>careful about which system extras I have loaded when using Spectrum at
>that speed.
>
>If I use the Super Serial Card with Turbo ASB set at 115,200 bps, I can
>get upwards of 9000 cps with ProTERM and ANSITerm, but Spectrum, being a
>GS/OS application, can't keep up with that speed even on a shift boot.
>Using ProTERM, for example, a 535K text file downloads in 60 seconds
>(9140 cps), and a 742K gzipped binary file downloads in 151 seconds
>(5037 cps.) So as I would suspect, I'm getting a bit less than 2X
>compression by doubling the port speed (on files that can, in fact,
>be compressed.)

I heard once a very vague rumor that one could set the //gs's serial port to 
run at 115200 bps, but I have NEVER found a way to confirm this or even test it 
out.