Autobaud Modems

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Wed Dec 12 06:48:17 AEST 1984


Actually, this scheme (use a spare modem-control line to sense the modem's
baud-rate indication, have the driver set the speed codes based on this,
and have getty do an ioctl to find out) is found in vanilla V7.  One
difference:  V7 uses the secondary-receive line rather than ring-indicator.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry



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