Re: bypassing modem port

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:

>clueung@pro-acsd.cts.com (Chantha Lueung) writes:

>>If I wanted to bypass the modem ports firmware which max. out at 19200 bps
>>how would I do it from basic?  I want to get up to 57,600 bps?
>  You have to write it in assembly language; BASIC is just too slow to deal
>with it.  What you _could_ do is write an assembly driver that talks to 
>BASIC; but you'd be much much better off doing this under GS/OS (or, say,
>GNO :) and using C/high speed asm drivers for the task.
>  Programming the SCC8530 is a nightmare.  Sorta.

Nawww. If you have the manual, it's OK. Of course, you have to at ease with
tech blabber, ignore the sync stuff for the time being, and be able to think
logically, so you can understand what they are saying in the manual. From
there on, the rest is work. A lot, but not _that_ hard, I'd say.

Anyway, he's right. Go ASM. BASIC just won't kick it. While we're at it,
BASIC won't kick it for a lot of other things. Why not move to Modula-2
or C?

Soenke
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