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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> <1992Jul21.205557.29123@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:12:27 EDT
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- In article <1992Jul21.205557.29123@cc.ic.ac.uk> vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:
- >In article <clemon.08gc@lemsys.UUCP>, clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
- > -- In article <zgam_3l.wolfgang@netcom.com> wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke) writes:
- >
- > -- >The serial line is not the bottleneck. The telephone line limits the
- > -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > -- >throughput.
- > -- >
- > --
- > -- 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.
- >
- >Ouch.
- >
- >Even mint condition 1981 PCs are able to transfer 250 kbit/s through a serial
- >line, bit serial, analog, via the floppy disk controller. So far I have only
- >seen one machine incapable of maintining flow control and timing on floppy
- >disk transfers, and that also only in very special conditions.
-
- Yes. A SINGLE-TASKING 1981 PC. If the machine in question (stock
- 68000 7.14 MHz Amiga) was single tasking it would be able to handle approx.
- 220kbps (about where the UART clock becomes the bottleneck). FORTUNATELY
- the Amiga isn't a single-tasking computer. For the record, floppy access
- on the Amiga is DMA and a custom chip handles all DMA transfers in the
- background without using any processor time. Maybe what we need is a DMA
- serial port (novel idea....)
-
- >It is just that serial (RS232) ports were perceived to be slow and in need of
- >very careful processing. Thus the OSes start creaking, sort of like anything
- >that tries to shovel tons of coal with an elaborate golden teaspoon.
- >
- > Thomas
-
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