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"Man at B&Q" wrote in message
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Many UARTs won't run more than 115K, so that is a fair bet ;-)


But many more do.

Gazillions of UARTS in microcontrollers will run way faster than that.
I've done 1mbit/s in a PIC, between two devices on a PCB.


We used to run the archive tape drives on System X at 880k over 150m of
cable.
We invented a new tape protocol just for the job as we hated the stupid
ascii interface Tandberg had chucked together.
That was in the '80s