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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:

> I'd be surprized if the fifo's are actually disabled, as it's hard to get
> unix to do better than 19.2kbaud without them.  I suspect that the

  No.  FreeBSD handles 57600 quite nicely on a 16450, which only has a
single byte buffer.  At 115200, you may loose a few characters, but its
quite usable.

Tom