I'm curious. I haven't tried it, but surely one of you knows....
If I put a modern UART (extra i/o card with 16550) in an older machine
like an XT - 4.7 MHz I think (?) - how fast should it be able to
communicate? Should you be able to get the full 115.2K? 33.6?
The reason I ask is that I have both an XT and an AT which I would like to
run as email appliances - Pegasus for DOS is almost as intuitive as those
U$150 email appliances (although the form factor of the XT ain't as nice
unless you put feet on it and use it as an end table) - but the price is a
WHOLE lot better. However, dialing in at slower speeds, even 14.4K, is
both additional cost for me, and not really popular with my sysop.
Sooo...am I correct in assuming that even with a 4.7 MHz machine I'll have
plenty of speed on the bus to keep the UART happy at almost any speed?
Thanks,
Bob
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