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- 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: Mon, 27 Jul 92 23:42:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.234201.5804@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <clemon.08gc@lemsys.UUCP> <1992Jul21.205557.29123@cc.ic.ac.uk> <clemon.08ju@lemsys.UUCP>
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- In article <clemon.08ju@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
- >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....)
-
- Are you attempting to imply that Your CPU can simultaneously do I/O to
- the serial port and the Floppy disk? "For the record" The IBM PC-XT
- Also does floppy disk DMA. Big Deal, you still gotta snag the bus to do
- it.
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