RTS/CTS (was re: Help Telebit and SCO RTS/CTS Setup)

[Pete Holsberg]

In article <21301 at ists.ists.ca> aronb at gkcl.UUCP (Aron Burns) writes:
=In article <1991Apr8.173125.22219 at mccc.edu> pjh at mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=>at various speeds and published the results.  They said that at higher
=>transfer rates (57.6K and 115.2K), they used RTS/CTS handshaking because
=>(I'm paraphrasing) that's what you had to use when you had high speed
=
=Many devices don't respond quickley to an XOFF request, so the 
=buffer on the requesting device overflows with resultant data loss.
=This is particularly true of the UART built in to microcomputers.
=
=Some smart i/o cards respond to XOFF quickly enough to 
=do software flow control at high data rates.  The modem 
=also has to respond quickly.  If it all works, you can save
=some money on cabling :-).

They did their tests with null modems, and several of the comm programs
that choked with RTS/CTS turned on had excellent data transfer rates
with RTS/CTS turned off.  What does this tell us?

Pete
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