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From: larry@sgistl.SGI.COM (Larry Autry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 2400 Baud on a C64?
Message-ID: <5640@sgistl.SGI.COM>
Date: 2 Jul 88 15:06:09 GMT
References: <5087@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <10455@dutyche.cair.du.edu> <4663@killer.UUCP>
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In article <4663@killer.UUCP>, elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
> In message <10455@dutyche.cair.du.edu>, slindahl@udenva.cair.du.edu (Steve J. Lindahl) says:
> >In article <5087@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> kenneke@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
> >>  Is there any humanly possible way of exceeding 1200 baud on a C64? I have tried many terminal programs, and none has worked. Any information would help me out tremendously.
> 
> Skyles  interface, instead of serial interface). Not to mention that
> screen display at 9600 baud is pretty impossible on a 1mhz 6502 (960
> characters per second? hmm, that leaves, err, 100 cycles to input a
> character and display it). 
Please explain how the Apple II performs this magic given that it has the
same 1 mhz 6502?  ( This is not an invitation to a hardware flame-fest
since the old OSI did the same magic).  I believe that it has much to do 
with the screen driver.

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