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From: jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: appletalk error rates
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 10:22:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 10:22:57 1987
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The SCC has a 3-character on-chip buffer; after that you
get a 'hardware overrun' (as the Serial Driver refers to it.)
As a consequence, characters must be sucked out of the SCC
every 95 microseconds or less; the same applies to shoving
them in during transmit.
-- 
	Joel West  (c/o UCSD)
	Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA  92083
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