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- From: benny@shadow.net (Benito Horta)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: UART or ESP ??
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 23:21:57 GMT
- Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
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- : [ Material cut becuase its too wide - basically said that the ESP reduces
- : the load on the CPU. ]
-
- : : Spending $80 - $100 (dual port ESP II) vs. $40 - $60 for a braindead 16550
- : : card, is a very good deal.
-
- : Of course, the chances are you'll see no benefit over a 16550 card
- : (the CPU load dealing with serial comms is trivial), but if you want
- : to spend the extra $50 on something which gives you no noticable
- : benefit thats up to you. :-)
-
- : Dale.
-
- : --
- : ******************************************************************************
- : * Dale Shuttleworth *
- : * Email: dale@giskard.demon.co.uk *
- : ******************************************************************************
-
- If you run DSZ it supports the enhanced FIFO chip on the ESP board. but
- any run of the mill terminal download protocol will only support up to a
- 16550 so a ESP board would be a waste of money in that sense
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