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- From: kihlberg@vipunen.hut.fi (Olli Kihlberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: xprZmodem.library problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.115158.8835@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 11:51:58 GMT
- References: <58419@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1ij250INNa1q@manuel.anu.edu.au> <3491@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM>
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- Reply-To: kihlberg@vipunen.hut.fi (Olli Kihlberg)
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- In article <3491@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM> Chip.Brewster@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM writes:
- >
- >In article <1ij250INNa1q@manuel.anu.edu.au>, tom@mars (Tom Minchin) writes:
- >|> Daniel Barrett (barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu) wrote:
- >|> : >>In article <C0HIuH.534@news.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald
- >R Lloyd)
- >|> : >>[in c.s.a.advocacy] writes:
- >....
- >|> I see that the two previous followupees (!) both use A3000s. Because of the
- >|> wimpy serial port the Amiga is _stuck_ with it is quite easy to over run the
- >|> buffer at 9600 baud. Standard 68000 Amigas will be rather strained if you
- >|> say download at 9600 baud and LHa at the same time, so having a nice '030
- >|> 32bit system would help I guess.
- >
- >My friend's A3000 has no problems. My stock 68000 A2000 has all kinds of
- >errors if I try to do something else while downloading at 9600. Sometimes
- >just moving the mouse (with AutoPoint running) or inserting a floppy is all
- >it takes. I've always suspected I need more horsepower.
-
- A faster serial.device might help. The WB2.x serial.device is said to
- be faster than the WB1.3 device. "BaudBandit.device" (it's shareware)
- is much faster than WB2.x device. Also, running communications at
- higher priority might be enough to solve many problems.
-
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