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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: SID II data rate?
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Date: 28 Sep 90 15:57:55 GMT
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In article <1990Sep27.165443.2923@d.cs.okstate.edu> norman@d.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) writes:
>How does the SID get its info to the Mac without overrunning
>the serial ports? It samples 22K 8bit samples per second, but
>without compression it would seem to require a data transfer
>rate of 176Kbps. What am I missing here?

That the serial ports can in fact run that fast.
(remember, Appletalk speed is faster than that-- I'm sure it takes a lot
of processor time, especially on slow machines, but it is possible)
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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