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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: ZMODEM using REUs
Message-ID: <514@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 14:31:25 GMT
References: <89Apr24.010003edt.2376@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu (Marcel LeBlanc) sez:
> Not that long ago, a discussion about the difficulties of implementing
> ZMODEM on the C64/C128 was side-tracked by a discussion of fast disk I/O
> :-).  The discussion centered around the requirement for simultaneous disk
> and RS-232 processing when a file is being received.

If you read the ZMODEM documentation, overlapping disk access and serial
I/O is not required for ZMODEM, it just makes it go faster.

[ This is also true if you _DON'T_ read the documentation :-) Sometimes
I say some damn silly things :-) :-) ]
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