[geeks] How low can you go...

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:54:47PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 9600 baud SLIP is about 960 bytes/sec.  A back-of-the-envelope
> calculation says that at that rate an install of recent NetBSD would
> finish overnight.
> 
> This strikes me as slow but by no means out of the question - and many
> machines will have higher baud rates available.

9600 bits per second is about as fast as you can go without an NS14550AFN
or equivalent UART. Since the last machine I bought that did not have
one was in the EARLY 1990's anything with a 486 or later may have one.

Anything over 2400 bits per second will probably need hardware hadshaking
to work properly.

Geoff.


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