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The UART chip on motherboards and I/O cards only applies to the serial ports
and external modems. Internal modems have their own UART chips and plug
directly into the ISA bus. This means whatever internal modem you purchase
will work correctly with your computer. Because even 57.6K internal modems
are MUCH slower than the ISA bus, almost ANY computer can easily handle the
speed of these high speed modems.
However, I can't see how a 33 MHz CPU can work in Windows 95. For acceptable
performance, I would need at least a 90 MHz Pentium. I'm glad I have a Cyrix
P150. With a 33 MHz, MetaStock v6 must be incredibly slow. I once used a
Cyrix 486DL-33 and the screen refresh rate in Windows v3.1 was unbearable.
Daniel L. Martinez
In a message dated 97-11-13 09:58:40 EST, altag@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<< Marianne,
the UART chip controls the rate at which your computer and modem transfer
information (or speak to each other). The modem speed and the line factor
are the components that control the rate at which you download data.
Al Taglavore >>
Hello everyone :-)
As I see it, this all depend on how much you want to pay
for your downloading. Personally I have a computer from
1993, 33 mhz, modem 28 800 bps.
To follow the speed of today, I have to purchase a card,
16 550 UART. This will make the speed available to
57 600 - 115 200 bps. (in DOS you can see which UART
your computer is running. Give the command MSD).
To download a chart will only take some seconds.
Hope this helps.
:-) Marianne
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