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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 15:33:24 -0400
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In message <Pine.OSF.3.91.960628143531.1057C-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>you write:
>On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Kevin Swanson wrote:
>
>> I was told by Digi that their "dumb" 8-port boards (PC/8), could only go up  
>> to 19.2 KBps if you used 16550's. This doesn't sound right based on some of  
>> the responses I've been getting.

These days, a multiboard should at least do 115200baud in my opinion.  At
least it can be competitive with modems.  8x115200baud is still only 1/8 
MB/sec and 16x115200 is only 1/4 MByte/sec.  Not exactly fast.

Jacob