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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Serial and Parallel interface ??????
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 01:54:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.015453.19377@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <clemon.08gc@lemsys.UUCP> <1992Jul21.014904.5052@raven.alaska.edu> <clemon.08ii@lemsys.UUCP>
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- In article <clemon.08ii@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
- > 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
-
- Hahaha,
-
- Can you say ETHERNET, TOKEN RING? All SERIALLY transmitted data.
-
- >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.
-
- Not Likely ISDN is gonna fly past 10 Mbits/sec, but I will agree that
- "standard" RS-232 is not going to go much past 115K.
-
- >
- >--
- > Craig Lemon VE3XCL - Kitchener, Ontario. Amiga B2000 OS 2.04 UUCPv1.15D.
- > +1 519 741 0297 +1 519 578 7817 | Silly people! We all
- > clemon@lemsys.UUCP clemon%lemsys@xenitec.on.ca | know that the Universe
- > IP/Packet: ve3xcl@ve3xcl.ampr.org [44.135.84.51]| revolves around UUNET!
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