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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:2 Oct 2000 at 13:34:05
Subject:Re: Networking

Paul Hill said,

>> Nick knight said,

No he didn't, I did.

>> Which means using a serial connection without hardware handshaking.
> this
>> works, but is slow, you're limited to about 9600. There's a 3 wire
>> serial ProNET setup on every AACD.

> Actually digital cameras normally use 3-wire communications and it's
> common to use 115200 or greater with these.

I wouldn't pull a digicam cable apart to check, but I do know that
ProNET struggles at higher speed.

I'm sure you're right about digicams, which is why they struggle to get
a decent speed on the standard serial port. If there were decent
handshaking, it wouldn't matter if the speed was higher.

Neil



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