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- From: benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William Kent Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: How to read fast (9600baud) on the printer port
- Date: 26 Aug 1992 14:43:26 -0500
- Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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- In article <1992Aug20.132511.10864@unifr.ch> dietler@cfruni51 (giovanni dietler) writes:
-
- >for writing fast to a printer only. Inside Macintosh tells that
- >the printer port is good to use at 300 baud in the reading mode, but
- >we would like to use it at faster rate. On a MacSE we can read up to
- [ stuff deleted ]
-
- My understanding of the problem is that the printer port has
- lower interrupt priority than the modem port, so you might lose
- incoming data due to higher-prio interrupts (which would
- supercede the printer port input but not the modem port input).
- If this is the case, you can read as much as you like, but
- you can't do anything about loss of data coming in at faster
- than 300 baud. You may lose some, you may not. It depends
- on what other things are happening. Just a guess is that
- disk interrupt is equal to modem port, therefor greater
- than printer input. If this is true, then if the mac has to
- service the disk, it will run off and leave the printer input
- unattended, thus allowing overwrite of data.
-
- Maybe reducing the need to read from disk (increase app cache,
- increase ram, load app/files to ram disk, etc) will help.
- (again assuming that the disk is the problem. There are
- probably other "devices" that won't interrupt modem but
- will interrupt printer)
-
- Actually, another solution is to get the LabNB board to input through
- your slot (isn't there a NuBus alternative for the LC?. If not, maybe
- Nat'l Instruments has a device that will plug into the LC).
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