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Article #1513Re: Mac <-> NeXT communication
From: Dan Berry
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:41
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:41
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poff@vax.sonoma.edu (Someone) writes: : Are you sure? There are at least two companies which make software/hardware : that allows for a third serial port that can do 56kbaud data transfer through : a Un*x tty device. Couldn't one of these solutions work? : : poff@vax.sonoma.edu : --thomas-- Appletalk runs at 230k-baud, if I recall right. That's a far cry from 56k. :-) Not to mention that just running one of the NeXT's serial ports hogs about 20 to 40% of the CPU time... it seems that there's no specialized IO to handle the serial ports and pesters the 68040 like a hungry mosquito on a hot summer day. I don't know what sort of performance you can get with the third-party port. -- Dan Berry == President, NeXT Edmonton Owners Network / UofA Computers Tech. bugs%atlantis@cs.ualberta.ca (bugs@atlantis.uucp) - NeXTmail OK! "On a first date, watch how your date treats the waiter, the bartender, and so on. That's how she'll be treating YOU after three months."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!access.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!atlantis!bugs From: bugs@atlantis.uucp (Dan Berry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mac <-> NeXT communication Message-ID: <1992Apr14.064149.14290@atlantis.uucp> Date: 14 Apr 92 06:41:49 GMT References: <12APR199215594201@vax.sonoma.edu> Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Lines: 18