Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:4832 comp.dcom.modems:6351
Path: utzoo!dciem!array!colin
From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Ethermodems?
Message-ID: <297@array.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 90 02:31:38 GMT
References: <1990Jul4.195351.9324@tsa.co.uk> <1990Jul19.154334.27957@tsa.co.uk> <1990Jul23.072926.16434@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Lines: 7

A modem right off the ethernet might be a bit specialised (although
someone does it for AppleTalk); perhaps upping the baud rate to
38.4 or 57.6 Kbaud and dangling it off one of the available ethernet
terminal concentrators would work better.  This offloads the buffering
and interrupt-per-character work from the main processor.
-- 
	-Colin