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Re: -> Advice needed: 14.4 & //gs



In article <37eaes$fj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Gary Sutton <cvotter@prairienet.org> wrote:
> 
> From what I've heard from another GS owner here where I live,
> anything faster than 9600 is pointless on a GS, unless you
> have an accelerator

Oh, really?  I have an unaccelerated IIgs running desktop-based comms
software (Spectrum), with some timer-based interrupts going in the
background and AppleTalk enabled (but idle), and I'm running reliably
at 19200 (including 16800 connections with error correction to one
BBS).  I haven't had file transfers going faster than about 1500 cps
yet (15000 bps).

In a "cleaner" environment (e.g. booting ProDOS-8 and no AppleTalk),
it should be possible to achieve 38400 bps or maybe even 57600 bps on
an unaccelerated IIgs.
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David Empson
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