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From: johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ISDN
Message-ID: <476@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 16 Aug 88 13:43:02 GMT
References: <18.23040D6B@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG> <6108@bigtex.uucp>
Reply-To: johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
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In article <6108@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>if they did, you still have to have a black box for your PC: Mess-DOS
>rolls over dead at the thought of 9600bps (interrupt latency on
>extended memory on slow machines), much less 8Kbytes/sec!  I rather

If you were counting on the PC to do all the work, yes 8K/sec would be
messy.  However, if you connected this in through a DMA channel or used the
AT string commands (which are faster than DMA for smaller blocks, ask DOS)
you could get some pretty good rates.  I just finished a product that could
handle 2 19.2 lines at once, recording this data to disk as well as the screen
and also scans that data for specific strings.  Our biggest problem was getting
the special comm adapter to go as fast as we could.

And just thing of what you could do with ISDN and LAN tech.... makes one
want to drool.

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Wayne Johnson                 (Voice) 612-638-7665
NCR Comten, Inc.             (E-MAIL) W.Johnson@StPaul.NCR.COM or
Roseville MN 55113                    johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM
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