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From: snyderw@pawl17.pawl.rpi.edu (Wilson P. Snyder II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AppleTalk, Networking, Amigas and Offices
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Date: 25 Apr 88 14:40:05 GMT
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Keywords: Network speed 500KBaud

In article <392@uvicctr.UUCP> sdean1@uvicctr.UUCP (Steven A. Dean) writes:
>100K per second... A friend of mine got (with some UGLY code) about 500KBaud.
>The serial port is pretty quick...  
> 

Now, is there ANY way to use the BLITTER to get/put data from one address
into/outof memory.  If the system could DMA the data you could have a very
fast parallel port (assuming that you got the data in the short period
before the next byte was written.)  I assume that one problem would be the
need for chip memory.  Comments?





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