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From: chari@juniper.uucp (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <5513@juniper.uucp>
Date: 15 Oct 88 18:22:55 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP> <7472@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: chari@juniper.UUCP (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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In article <7472@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> arwall@athena.mit.edu (Chumley Wood) writes:
>In article <635@ardent.UUCP>, kmw@ardent (Ken Wallich) writes:
>
>>[thinks there are no serial ports]

>I've been told that with the 10 MIPS DSP you only need software to get
>9600 baud performance as is.

According to a BYTE article on BIX, the NeXT has two Mac-compatible serial
ports, a Mac compatible SCSI (but faster) and a printer port. All  are hooked 
into the DMA chip. The printer, for example, barfs out 1MB per second in draft
mode and 4MB/sec in best mode.

Also, there is a direct connection to the DSP chip that could be used for a 
phone jack interface.

Basically, you can hook up any ol' modem until they get the emulation working.

Chris

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