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- From: bender@oobleck (Duke of Canterbury)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Serial and Parallel interface ??????
- Message-ID: <l7c0vtINNlh@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 02:35:41 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.234201.5804@ksmith.uucp>
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- keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
- : 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.
-
- Yes, because the floppy DMA controller section of one of the custom chips
- grabs the bus during the portion of the 68000 cycle when the CPU is not on
- the bus, so every CPU cycle is actually 1/2 on-bus (potentially) and 1/2
- off-bus.
-
- mike
-
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