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- From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Serial and Parallel interface ??????
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- References: <BrKAoH.4Gp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <zgam_3l.wolfgang@netcom.com> <clemon.08gc@lemsys.UUCP> <1992Jul21.014904.5052@raven.alaska.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:20:50 EDT
- Organization: Private UUCP "Twig" Node
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- In article <1992Jul21.014904.5052@raven.alaska.edu> floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes:
- >> On some systems, particularly with multitasking OS's, it is. Not
- >>everyone has the processors or UARTS for a couple 57600 bps ports and
- >>everything else that needs to be taken care of in the background.
- >
- >But that really isn't a "serial line" problem, and changing to a
- >parallel interface would not change that particular bottleneck.
- >
- >It's the parallel (cpu bus) side of the Serial I/O controller
- >which isn't fast enough, and that is indentically the same problem
- >with a Parallel I/O controller.
-
- Well, the particular problem that I was referring to is on an
- unaccelerated Amiga (7.14MHz 68000) it is possible under heavy multitasking
- that the serial service interrupts will not be serviced quickly enough and
- it will start to lose characters (only a 1-byte FIFO or so). There are
- other problems with serial data, however. You can only send bits so fast
- before capacitance and other problems reduce the intelligibility of the
- data (ie. the pulses are rounded off so badly that they barely qualify as
- pulses). There is going to come a time when another interface method will
- need to be added to I/O devices simply for throughput reasons whether it be
- SCSI or simple parallel or whatever. Lining the bits up single file can
- only go so fast. While we may not have reached this limit with standard
- high-speed modem technology yet, there will be other standards (ISDN
- perhaps) that will.
-
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