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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:18571 comp.os.linux.misc:28684 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14199 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3942 sci.electronics:83124 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!barrnet.net!Reason.cdrom.com!oz.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,sci.electronics Subject: Re: 16550 detection Date: 03 Nov 1994 05:01:22 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 10 Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov2210122@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <CMETZ.94Oct30051603@itchy.inner.net> <SRA.94Oct30162124@rurha-pente.epilogue.com> <CMETZ.94Oct30192816@itchy.inner.net> <CyIzxz.97A@cuug.ab.ca> <TYTSO.94Oct31162517@dcl.mit.edu> <MICHAELV.94Oct31211019@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <TYTSO.94Nov1182557@dcl.mit.edu> <MICHAELV.94Nov1215132@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <TYTSO.94Nov2113942@dcl.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: tytso@athena.mit.edu's message of 2 Nov 1994 16:39:33 GMT In article <TYTSO.94Nov2113942@dcl.mit.edu> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes: A V.34 modem does 28.8kbps (and you're not going to see much better than that, I suspect, due to silly things such as Shannon's Limit); on top of Not to be irrelevant or anything, but wasn't Shannon's Limit used to prove that modems couldn't go any faster than 2400 baud? I remember quite a bit of discussion on this in the early 80's! Jordan