Re: [NTLK] serial ports (eg #3) questions

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 07:12:18 PST


On Friday 21 February 2003 00:05, Daniel Padilla wrote:

> >Also, what is involved with making these
> >serial port speed pkgs? (eg the 57600 Serial)
> >And are there any faster ones? If not why -
> >I thought that the hardware was capable of
> >higher rates.?.
>
> There's a function to register a desktop connection transport.
> RegDesktopConnTransport. :-)
> The newton can even use external clocks for the serial port speeds.
> It just a matter of making the interface for it. But maybe the usual
> desktop programs can't handle the higher speeds.

I use 115200 bps transfers. AFAIK it's only available for unixnpi on LGX
(linux), although it might work on OSX command line as well.

And no, my desktop has no problems whatsoever coping with such a fast Newt.
:)

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