Re: Need help finding a modem for a IIgs

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <3aksov$d2g@paris.ics.uci.edu>, Orion Pax <jlee@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>Auri Man (aar7334@exodus.valpo.edu) wrote:
>: You can use ProTerm and hook up at 57.6, but you won't be able to get the
>: full vfast 116.8k (or whatever the super speed is <grin>) until someone
>: releases a serial card for the GS that uses the new UART chip that goes 
>: to the top speed of a 28.8 modem.  But a 57.6 connection with a 28.8 modem
>
>It's already been done.  The turboASB serial chip upgrade by I believe to
>be the same people that did the TurboIDE.

Does the turboASB upgrade for the SuperSerialCard alleviate the problem
with the one-byte buffer on the original SSC? (Since the buffer is so
small, the faster the serial speed, the more often the buffer data must
be gathered and cleared, or the data is overwritten by the next byte,
and lost.) This means that having interrupt driven code that takes up
a lot of time will cause lost data. If this is not corrected in the
turboASB, I don't see how the computer could possibly keep up with
a 115kpbs connection, let alone 230... Thanks!

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