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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga serial questions
Message-ID: <1619@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 87 20:45:18 GMT
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In article<5279@fmsrl7.UUCP> wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (//ichael R. //ayne) writes:
 >Anyway, for the curious, I was looking to do some real-time data
 >acquisition from a device that does not support flow control.  Note also
 >that I mentioned that tek emulation was "desireable".
and ...
 > Anyway, I have seen terminals that will keep up with continuous 9600 without
 >flow control, I had hoped that the Amiga could be convinced to do a bit
 >better and go 19.2K.  Looks like I'll have to look elsewhere.

Fascinating. My first thought upon reading the previous request for a
terminal that would support both Tek emulation and 19.2K baud was that the
two criteria don't seem to have much relation to one another. I suppose
it's just possible that someone would sit in front of a screen for 8
hours, reading (or watching) data stream in at 19.2K baud, but I somehow
think that it's unlikely.

Data acquisition is one thing, reading a sustained high data rate is quite
another.  It should be trivial to capture data at sustained 19.2K baud if
one does not need to display it while capturing.

Look elsewhere if you want, but I think you'll find that the Amiga can
handle it quite well, and possibly better than many other systems that
don't have separate tasks taking care of I/O.

--
The transistor is a curiosity, and will never amount to much.
    -- Mr. Stringer, Basic Electronic Instructor, RCAF, 1962.
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