Odd RS232 problem
Daniel O'Connor
doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Tue May 23 04:49:07 PDT 2006
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 19:45, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-May-23 19:23:20 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >I would hope that 9600 baud wouldn't be *too* fast for a 2GHz CPU :(
>
> That depends on what else is sharing the IRQ. PLIP can give you
> 10's of msec of latency. PIO disks can also destroy latency as
> can NE2000-style NICs.
Hmm, well I just realised I don't actually know what it IS sharing an IRQ with
as puc/sio don't say :(
I don't have any ISA hardware or PIO disks in the system. I do have a parallel
port which I am not using though.
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