>I got my numbers from Cisco's Internetworking Terms and Acronyms (not
>that Cisco is always right ;-) It says RS-232 was limited to 64 Kbps and
>that RS 449 is 2 Mbps.
>
>Here what that document says about RS-530:
>
>Refers to two electrical implementations of EIA/TIA-449: RS-422 (for
>balanced transmission) and RS-423 (for unbalanced transmission).
Here's a bit of the history.
RS-232 specified electrical, mechanical, and logical aspects of the
interface. X.21 bis is _almost_ identical.
The next generation split up the electrical and mechanical:
RS-422 relatively high speed, short-range, balanced
RS-423 shorter unbalanced, longer range, lower speed, easily
interoperates
with RS-232 electrical (well, with a resistor)
RS-449 37-pin mechanical connector
(No RS- but ISO-number) 15-pin connector originally used for X.21.
RS-530 cleaned up the act.
>
>I don't think the actual numbers matter to answer the fellow's question.
>The bottom line is that serial doesn't mean slow.
OC-768 isn't slow!
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