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In article <48luuq$7di@harpo.uccs.edu> srrodewa@eclat.uccs.edu (Shelly R. Rodewald) writes:
>  You forgot the external disk drive port.  It is used for a networking
>program (commercial) and provides very fast transfers.
>  AT needs to revise the chipset so that the serial port works like the
>disk drive -- DMA direct to memory!  No 16 byte buffers, no mucking with
>interrupts, Just blast the data to memory.  With clever software, an adaptor
>card could be made to plug into the disk drive port, and use the built in
>DMA that is already used for the disks.  How about it???

That sounds like a great idea!  I've got a floppy port I'm not
using--if I could hook up my modem to it, that would (a) free
up my serial port for something else, and (b) reduce CPU usage
while downloading by a great deal!  (I think it would, anyway ;))

If anyone wants to build this interface and make a SANA2 driver
for it, they have my $50!

Jeremy

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