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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Serial and Parallel interface ??????
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 01:38:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.013815.14602@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <BrKAoH.4Gp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul20.190425.22188@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Jul21.210753.8014@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- Thomas,
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- Get with the program. A parallel port is just as, if not more demanding
- to the resource of the CPU as a serial one. If you want real SPEED at
- the modem interface you are going to need something buffered, and/or a
- little closer to the bus. Actually in this case a SCSI device wouldn't
- be such a bad idea. Most SCSI controllers have a 50 pin connector on
- the back already, and you could cable straight into the modem. The
- MODEMS are already driven with a couple of CPU's and buffers inside.
- Adding the SCSI logic shouldn't be a major hurdle. Then the SCSI bus
- controller could use mastering and say 32 bit (EISA) transfers to really
- move the data with very slight CPU overhead.
-
- Using a parallel port, and Programmed I/O There is no way you will
- exceed 8MB/sec (8Mhz bus 1 byte at the time) HALF-DUPLEX. That means
- 4MB/sec bi-directional, and in reality you can't even hope to move CLOSE
- to 1 byte per clock accross the lower half of an ISA bus to the parallel
- port. Consider if it is comming from/ going to disk the disk is gonna
- need the bus to get it in memory too, immediately halfing the bandwidth
- before you start.
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