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From: chaney@ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Serial port input speed
Message-ID: <10745@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 88 02:03:25 GMT
Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
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Hello all

   I have been recently asked to find a board/system/whatever that will be able
to handle data input (from a device as yet undisclosed to me) at a speed on the
order of 512 bytes every 10 milliseconds.  I have heard rumours of a maximum
speed for the serial ports and was wondering if I was going to need either a
special board or special buffer-handling routines in order to accept this data.

    Since I cannot test the machine yet, I thought I would field the question here.Also, this is being run on a 10Mhz clone, does that pose a problem?  

    As far as the application goes, I doubt it will be very intensive or require
the CPU's attention that much.  I envision just a dump to disk at this point.


  Feel free to E-mail responses and I will summarize the findings.


Thanks for any info

	Dan


P.S.
  Does anyone know of a PD/SW or even cheap CW that will allow me to use two
machines from 1 keyboard?  Ideally, it would only use one screen but if it takes
two, so be it.  Some form of hot-key would be most preferable.  again, Thanks.


-- 
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