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From: maniac@lil-ed.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Serial Port, SYNC mode?
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Date: 30 Sep 90 20:44:28 GMT
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	I'm hoping that someone out there can answer a question 
for me.  Can the standard amiga serial port, either through 
the serial.device, or through direct hardware access, do
8 bit syncronous transfers, with no start or stop bits?
I don't think this can be done, but I'm willing to listen
to anyone with an idea.

	The reason I ask is because I'm toying with the idea
of writing an mnp.device, which will add mnp error detection 
and correction protocols to terminal programs transparently.
The problem is, MNP level 3 requires syncronous comunications,
and MNP level two only has an efficiency of about 84% if I
remember right (MNP 3 gets 108%).
 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@jimi.cs.unlv.edu