From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dove@mit-dspg@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: properly designed peripherals
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2301
Posted: Wed Jul 28 20:34:12 1982
Received: Thu Jul 29 06:02:37 1982

Date: 26 Jun 1982 14:37:07-EDT
In the line of Dave Yost's comments about terminals interfaces, for
one thing I agree that they should have a built in timer.  However, the
idea of a 1k fifo for each channel extends to many other devices.  In
particular, it has always bugged the s&*# out of me that I can't find
an atod/dtoa system that worked that way.  It would be so much easier
than futsing with dma channels and such.  We have implemented something
locally out of an 11/10 and unibus window that works more or less in this
way, but I'd sure like to find a cheap fast one on the market!