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- From: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: Using NS 3.0 appletalk support over phonenet
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- References: <1frhb5INNjsq@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec8.043237.25320@slab.slip.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec15.074916.5208@csus.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:49:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.074916.5208@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes:
- >Whoa. NeXT's serial ports wheeze at 38.4Kb. You might have
- >better luck with the DSP. Note that Yrrid's TTYDSP product
- >supposedly tops out at 128Kb, however.
-
- A raw data stream driver for the DSP should be able to easily handle
- the speeds the DSP maxes out at (~400kbit/sec async and ~3Mbit/sec sync).
- TTYDSP does all the tty processing on the DSP (line mode editing even)
- so we only advertise what it's been tested at, when someone needs higher
- rates it'll be something to look into...
-
- The main problem is the sound driver really, TTYDSP 1.0 uses the sound
- driver to talk to the DSP, and this was a bitch to do, I wouldn't recommend
- the sound driver for these types of applications at all. 1.1 talks directly
- to the hardware, which is really nice and clean even tho it requires hacks
- so the sound driver doesn't blow you away. At least with the serial ports
- you have things like zsacquire/release for writing custom drivers...
-
- The DSP still has a lot of potential, the main problem (speaking from
- experience) is the sound driver. Until NeXT puts stuff in the kernel
- to legitamately write new drivers (two routines: one to allocate the DSP
- hardware and one to release it) for it you're really gonna struggle
- with what they give you..
-
- <shrug>,
- --
- :: Christopher Lloyd :: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu :: Yrrid, Inc. ::
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