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From: rsanders@watdcsu.UUCP (Roger K. Sanderson P.Eng.)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Re: Serial port on CoCoIII
Message-ID: <2709@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Nov-86 12:47:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  4 12:47:14 1986
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Reply-To: rsanders@watdcsu.UUCP (Roger K. Sanderson P.Eng.)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: It is still a bit banger.

In article <5031@ukme.ukma.uky.csnet> david@ukma.uky.csnet (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
>Question:
>
>	Does anybody know if the CoCo-III still has that stoopid
>	old bit-banged serial port?  I haven't seen anything yea
>	or nay in Rainbow or here.
>
It is my understanding that , yes they still use the bit banger, however
there is a facility for generating timer interupts. These can be used
so many times per bit to give some interuptability.
See the article in Nov. Rainbow about TERM3.
He samples 5 times per bit (I think).
-- 

               Roger Sanderson
               Electrical Engineering Dept.
               University of Waterloo
	       Waterloo Ontario Canada
               N2L 5E6
   
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