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From: ray@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Ray Moody)
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Subject: Re: Simultaneous disk & RS-232 access
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Date: 3 Feb 89 01:38:44 GMT
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    Writing faster serial routines is not the right way to speed up a
communications protocol.  Even with super-fast serial I/O, 100% efficiency
cannot be obtained.  In order to reach 100% efficiency, it is necessary to
write serial routines that are not affected by the RS-232 interrupts.

								Ray