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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.arch,net.micro
Subject: DEC's OCTART
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 21:23:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 21:23:00 1984
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I just received literature from DEC about their Octal Asynchronous
Receiver Transmitter (OCTART).  Each channel has Transmit Data (TD),
Receive Data (RD), Data Set Ready (DSR), and Data Carrier Detect
(DCD).

Now what good does Data Set Ready (incoming) do without Data Terminal
Ready (outgoing) for full handshaking?  Obviously they designed the
chip to interface to terminals and not other machines.

I would like to see a sister chip with DTR instead of DCD.  Anyone know
what DEC has in mind for the future?
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Palo Alto (soon Menlo Park), CA
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