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- From: mdavis@crash.cts.com (Morgan Davis)
- Subject: Re: ATTENTION high-speed modem users!
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 13 Nov 92 06:44:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <mdavis.721637053@crash.cts.com>
- References: <BxDGBD.9vL@news.iastate.edu> <83209@ut-emx.uucp> <uerics.721283432@mcl> <1992Nov12.022902.16202@netcom.com>
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- In <1992Nov12.022902.16202@netcom.com> tbc@netcom.com (Mike Garvey) writes:
-
- >Paul "The Oggman" Parkhurst says that the cable he mentioned in his "HST
- >Speed" articles (described below) neatly sidesteps this problem with the
- >CTS signal and the HSKi line; this cable basically uses the GPi line to
- >support the CTS signal. Is it possible that more software (PT3, METAL,
- >ProLine/ModemWorks, GNO's drivers) be modified to work with this cable?
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- Its doubtful that ModemWorks (which ProLine uses) would be able to work
- with this configuration because ModemWorks uses the Extended Firmware
- routines in the Apple IIGS's serial interface. You'd basically have to
- rewrite the ROMs to do this. On the other hand, I've not heard of any
- ModemWorks-based systems having any trouble with hardware flow control.
-
- This may be because the IIGS firmware uses the CTS transition interrupt
- rather than polling the CTS signal as do many programs that go right
- to the metal in dealing with the 8530 directly.
-