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From: Graham Toal <gtoal@gtoal.com>
Subject: Re: Speed of serial ports under 386BSD
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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 03:47:02 GMT
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In article <733653594snz@aldur.demon.co.uk> neil@aldur.demon.co.uk writes:
:I'm using the Tiny BSD kernel and I was going to have a go at downloading
:some more of the OS from the local mirror site.
:
:The problem is that neither of the serial ports will accept a baud rate in
:excess of 9600. Is this the limit with the full OS as well?

I've run successfully with both ports at 38400.  Course the bogus silo
overflow messages are a pain, but they're turned off (though not patched;
my system works and I'm reluctant to tinker)

G