Melon 1.79 <mailer> Isn't this a glitch?

ZXNet echo conference «real.speccy»

From Roman Milukov To All 26 June 1998

Hello, Andrey!

24 Jun 98 Andrey Isaev, hoping that Kirill Chubenko will read,
wrote:

KC> 2400 MNP4-5, V42B.
KC> What? ;)
AI> Why would such a momet need to lock the port to 19200? I don’t know how
AI> you have there, but my momed doesn’t understand above 9600, and if
AI> is still locked >9600, then it will think that it’s 2400.

Yes.
But it depends on what kind of UART is in the momed. I've seen modems for 2400 with
a 16450 chip - this can be locked up to 38400.
Why, that's another question. :)


All the best.
Roman.